n P^ i Kara. Boya s et i SB 407 | iz 37 1830 EDWARDS'S V e Xx tap BOTANICAL REGISTER: OR, ORNAMENTAL FLOWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY: CONSISTING OF COLOURED FIGURES OF PLANTS AND SHRUBS, CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS; ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR Wistorp, West Method of Treatment ín Cultibation, Propagation, Ke. CONTINUED By JOHN LINDLEY, F.R.S. L.S. ano G.S. PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, &e. &c. &c. VOL. XVI. !*) — viret semper nec fronde caducá Carpitur. LONDON: JAMES RIDGWAY, 169, PICCADILLY. M.DCCC.XXX. 2 / 30 e 139 MISSOURI BOTANICAL CLAD TSE N LONDON: J. MOYES, TOOR'S COURT, CHANCERY LANE. 1306. « ‘ Mat wA [ A P ra a u OY diii enu aces. cM eMe dM ooo 1306 MALVA* Munroána. Mr. Munro's Mallow. e ———Á MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. Matvacen. MALVA. — Supra, vol. 4. fol. 295. Sect, Malvastrum. . Carpella 1-locularia, monosperma. » H $ 7. Multiflore, floribus purpurascentibus v. albis, pedunculis axillaribus multifloris, involucello 3-phyllo, foliis angulatis. z M. Munroana; herbacea albido-tomentosa, foliis subrotundis cordatis sub- quinquelobis dentatis, involucello setaceo, pedunculis terminalibus paniculatis, \ M. Munroana, Douglas in herb. Hort. Soc. Ia Undique albo-tomentosa. Caulis ascendens, A Agar teres. Folia Subrotunda, cordata, Subquinqueloba, dentata; lobo medio majore. Flores paniculati, subsecundi. Calyx involucro è foliolis 3 setaceis deciduis con- stante, campanulatus 5-fidus. Corolla miniata, subglobosa, petalis rotundatis, emarginatis. Carpella plurima, capsularia, monosperma, bivalvia, reticulata, tn orbem disposita. This plant was found by Mr. Douglas abundantly upon the barren plains of the Columbia, in July 1826 ; and is closely allied to Malva miniata of Cavanilles. In our Gardens it does not possess any very striking beauty ; but this is probably owing to a want of the right mode of managing it; for Mr. Douglas speaks of it as one of the most beautiful of the plants he collected; and it appears from his dried specimens that it really is a far more showy plant when wild than when cultivated. d suffers much in beauty from rain, which discharges the rich vermilion of the petals, and gives the flowers a dirty red * Said to be a Latin alteration of the Greek pando, signifying soft. The emollient properties of the Mallow tribe are well known. VOL. XVI, B appearance. We have hitherto seen it cultivated in a rich border, or in peat earth; in such situations it does not thrive; it would perhaps be better in a coarse gravelly soil, among shaded rockwork. A hardy perennial, flowering from May to October. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society. Mr. Douglas named the species in compliment to Mr. Munro, the Gardener to the Horticultural Society. It does not ripen seeds, but is easily increased by cuttings ; if allowed to form a single bush, its ascending branches root at the base, and increase plentifully. Covered all over with whitish down. Stem ascending, from a foot and a half to 2 feet high, taper. Leaves round- ish, cordate, somewhat 9-lobed, toothed ; the middle lobe larger than the rest. Flowers panicled, arranged rather on one side. Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, with an involu- crum consisting of 3 setaceous, deciduous leaflets. Corolla vermilion-coloured, roundish, . with. rounded, emarginate petals. Carpella very numerous, capsular, one-seeded, 2-valved, reticulated, arranged in a circle. J. L, 1307 CLERODENDRON* hastätum. Halberd-leaved Clerodendron. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. VERBENACER. CLERODENDRON. —- Supra, vol. 5. fol. 406. C. hastatum ; folis oppositis subhastato-cordatis 5-lobis acuminatis ramis pedunculisque villosis, paniculä decussatá dichotomé ramosá, calyce foliaceo acuto, tubo corollee longissimo filiformi. Wallich MSS. C. hastatum (sphalmate C. sagittatum). Wall. cat. herb. ind. num. 1786. : Siphonanthus hastata. . Rox. hort. beng. p. 46. Frutex 4-pedalis, ramosa, erecta. Rami oppositi, patentissimi, sub- divaricati, obtuse 4-angulares, pedunculi foliaque utrinque pilis mollibus, copiosis, dilute ferrugineis villosi; etate glabriores, griset. Folia opposita, patentissima, latissime ovato-cordata, subhastata, 3-nervia, precipue subtüs villosa, 5-loba, lobis ovatis, acuminatis, integerrimis, intermedio maximo, lateralibus. brevibus, infimo utrinque divaricato, nunc obtusato ; inferiora palmaria et ultra, longissime petiolata, glabriora; superiora breviüs petiolata, sepe trilobo-hastata, floralia integra, subovata, vel cordata. Petioli pilosi, suprà plano-sulcati, utrinque parúm intumescentes ; inferiores 8-10-pollicares, quin pedales folioque longiores ; superiores iisdem breviores. Panicula ampla, ovata, terminalis, decussato-patens, villosa. Pedunculi oppositi, subcompressi ; ramificationes parüm elongati, dichotomi, cum pedi- cello in bifurcatione. Bractee foliacee, lanceolate, ciliate, et villose, pollicares, decidue, quandoque fasciculate. Flores albi, odorati, villosi, longissimi. Calyx magnus, purpurascens, nunc flavescens, persistens, Sructis _ parim auctus, profundé 5-lobus, lobis unguicularibus, lanceolatis, acutis, dorso concavis, marginibus subrevolutis, undulatis, duobus superioribus paullà majoribus. Tubus corolle longissimus, gracilis, subfiliformis, calyce mul- toties longior, 5-pollicaris, demüm fere rectus. Limbus subequaliter 5-fidus, intús glaber, laciniis oblongis, vix acutis, pollicaribus, recurvato- patentibus; estivatione ovatus, cum apice tubi nutans. Stamina 4, didyma, exserta limboque longiora, subparallela, tandem divaricata, levia. Fila- menta mor infra faucem inserta, filiformia, erubescentia. Anthere oblonge, atropurpuree, incumbentes. Ovarium oblongum, leve, subquadri- sulcatum, 1-loculare, 4-sporum : placentis parietalibus, cruciatim oppositis, * From xMigos, Chance, and dévdgor, a tree; in allusion to the different effects of different species of the genus when used medicinally. Jugiformibus, convexis, ad centrum contiguis, marginibus recurvis, per pares ovulum medio adfigentibus (unde ovarium pseudo-4-loculare). Stylus capil- laceus, sursim purpurascens. Stigma bifidum, lobis acutis, subulatis, divergentibus. (Bacca calyce brevior, atropurpurea, Witida, succulenta, 4-loba, lobis 2 v. 3 abortientibus, fertili obovato. Semen solitarium. Coty- ledones obovate, carnose. Radicula rotundata, infera. Ex Roxb.)— Wall. MSS. “ This is a very handsome shrub while in flower. It is a native of Silhet, where it was found by the late Mr. M. R. Smith, and by him sent to Dr. Roxburgh in 1811. The Hindustani and Bengali name is Hathi Khan, or Elephant's Ear, in allusion to the shape and size of its leaves. It produces its elegant white and fragrant flowers in the hot season, during the months of April and May, and ripens its berries in June and July. In the Botanic Garden of Calcutta it thrives luxuriantly." . „For the foregoing ample account of this plant we are indebted to the kindness of Dr. Wallich, by whom seeds were sent to Europe. Our drawing was made from a specimen obligingly communicated by the Honourable ánd Rev. W. Herbert, in November last. In the stove it is a rapid-growing plant, easily known by the dark green colour of its halberd-shaped leaves, which have often a deep stain of purple. 1t increases freely by cuttings. J. L. 130 1308 BLACKWELLZ/A* Padiflóra. Bird-Cherry-flowered Blackwellia. — DODECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. HoMALINER: BLACKWELLIA Juss. — Calyx tubo turbinato ovario accreto, limbo 5-15-partito, laciniis basi v. medio glanduliferis. Petala laciniis calycinis alterna, minora, eglandulosa. Stamina è tubo calycis, petalis opposita. Ovarium superne conicum. Styli 3-5. Capsula 1-locularis, polysperma. Semina parietalia. Arbuscule Indice aut Mauritiane, foliis ovatis dentatis, racemis simplicibus paniculatisve. B. Padiflora ; foliis ovalibus denticulatis glabris, floribus hexandris tetra- stylis, racemis erectis foliis brevioribus. Frutex erectus, ramosus, ramis teretibus, cinereis, novellis tomentosis. Folia plana, ovalia, obtusa, v. acuta, denticulata, glabra, costá subtüs tomentosá; stipule decidue. ^ Racemi axillares, erecti, folio breviores. Calyx turbinatus, pilosus, limbo 6-fido, laciniis ad basin glandulosis. Petala 6, ciliata, pauló majora. Stamina 6, petalis opposita. Ovarium uniloculare, semisuperum, placentis quatuor parietalibus ; styli 4, glabri, ad basin pilosi. A native of China, whence it was sent to the Horticul- tural Society by John Reeves, Esq. Our drawing was made in the Chiswick Garden last August. A hardy greenhouse plant, growing well in the open border during the summer ; very handsome when in flower, and increasing freely by cuttings. The blossoms in a mass have the appearance of those of the Bird Cherry; examined singly, they resemble nothing so much as an elaborately- finished shuttlecock. * Named after Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell, the authoress of a Herbal, containing figures of a few hundred plants drawn and engraved by herself. The work appeared in 1735. According to the authors of Linnean classifications, Blackwellia belongs to Dodecandria Pentagynia; but this species is Hexandrous and Tetragynous! An erect shrub, with taper, ash-coloured branches, the young ones being downy. Leaves flat, oval, obtuse, or acute, toothletted, smooth; their rib downy beneath; stipule deciduous. Racemes axillary, erect, shorter than the leaf. Calyx turbinate, hairy, with a 6-cleft limb, the segments of which are glandular at the base. Petals 6, rather larger. Stamens 6, opposite the petals. Ovarium 1-celled, half superior, with four parietal placente ; styles 4, smooth, hairy at the base. J. L. 1309 PENTSTEMON* venustum. Pretty Pentstemon. — Qe DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. SCROPHULARINES. PENTSTEMON. — Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1131. P. venustum; caule suffruticoso erecto glabro, foliis sessilibus rectis ovato- lanceolatis acuminatis denticulatis glabris, floribus paniculatis, corollis ventricosis ciliatis, calycibus glaberrimis, antheris pilosis. P. venustum. Douglas in herb. Hort. Soc. P. diffuso vald? affinis, precipue differt caule magis erecto, foliis sessilibus longioribus rectioribus, corolle colore obscuriore, calycibusque glaberrimis. Found by Mr. Douglas in the dry channels of rivers among the mountains of North-west America. It increases freely either by seed or cuttings; but is less handsome than P. diffusum or ovatum. To be grown in perfection it should be treated as a biennial: it is apt to become unsightly when old. Very like P. diffusum, from which it is known by its more erect habit, its leaves being sessile, not stalked, and longer and more straight, in the colour of the flower being less lively, and in the calyxes being perfectly smooth. Flowers in great profusion during the months of July, August, and September. We may here remark, what it is extremely important to those who are in possession of seed of the rare Pentstemons to know, that this seed cannot be raised in heat; it is indis- pensable that it should be sown in a cold frame, or all endeavours to raise it will prove fruitless. am * See fol. 1245. a "725 + ae y fant Kid by T d Fudguray Ži 6 1G Ticcadidlly March. P. ZA È 3 L () 1310 CASSIA* biflora. - T wo-flowered Cassia. DECANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. LgcUMINOsx. $ Cassiee. CASSIA. — Supra, vol. 1. fol. 83. Sect. Chamsesenna. Dec. Calycis sepala obtusa. Antheræ oblonge, biporose. Legumina com- pressa dehiscentia suturis subtumidulis, intüs septis transversis completis aut incompletis multilocularia, loculis non pulposis. - Semina verticalia seu valvis parallele compressa, ovata aut subquadrata, latitudinem leguminis - subeequantia, funiculo longiora. Dec. 2. Coluteoidex ; fruticose pauci- aut multi-foliolate. ** Jugiglandulose ; glandulis unà aut pluribus inter foliolorum oppo- sitorum bases. C. biflora ; foliolis 6-8-jugis ovali-oblongis obovatisve subglabris, glandulà subulatá inter infima, pedunculis folio multó brevioribus 2-4-floris. Dec. prodr. 2. 495. : ; C. biflora. Linn. amen. acad. 5. 397. Bot. mag. t. 810. Rami dense tomentosi, teretes. Stipule subulate. Folia 6-9-juga ; petiolo tomentoso, glandulá subulatá inter paria 2 inferiora ; foliolis oblongis obovatisve sursúm majoribus, leviter pilosis. Pedunculi axillares, filiformes, biflori, foliis breviores. Flores magni, intense lutei. A drawing of this plant was made many years since in the Garden of the Comte de Vandes, under the idea that it was a new species. It is, however, certainly C. biflora, rather more luxuriant than usual. . A native of the West Indies, whence it was long. since introduced to our Gardens. In this country it, like most other species of this beautiful genus, has been neglected, in * According to Olaus Celsius, this word comes from the Hebrew Ketzioth, rendered by xacíz in the version of the Septuagint, and Latinised casia. But both Virgil and Pliny have a casia, which is supposed to have been Daphne Cneorum. consequence of the necessity of keeping it in a pot in a stove or greenhouse, — a situation in which it does not thrive; but planted in the open ground of a conservatory, or even in the open border, in such countries as the south of France, where the summer temperature is sufficiently high, this and many others become the chief ornaments of a garden. Flowers in July and August, and strikes readily from cuttings: with us it rarely ripens seeds. Branches densely downy, taper. Stipule subulate. Leaves of from 6 to 9 pair; the petiole downy ; a subulate gland between the base of each of the lower pair; /eaflets obovate or oblong, largest upwards, slightly hairy. Pe- duncles axillary, filiform, 2-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Flowers large, deep yellow. dL / D ALT) i l y , DG por n2, ib bY F t ALGU US 10 3 ICI « 1317 1311 CANNA* Lagunensis. Canna of Laguna. ———9—— MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CANNE. CANNA. — Supra, vol. 7. fol. 576. C. Lagunensis ; foliis abrupté acuminatis: supremis cordatis inferioribus in basin attenuatis, bracteis maximis oblongis obtusis, floribus luteis limbo interiore tripetalo maculato : petalo altero revoluto integerrimo. Folia inferiora 9 pollices longa v. majora, utrinque sensim attenuata ; suprema cordata, dimidio minora, magis abrupté acuminata. — Bractea infima. spathacea, cucullata, superiores membranacea, nunc rotundate, trans- verse, sepius oblonge, ovario et calyce multo longiores, omnibus glaucis. Calyx glaucus. Floris limbi interioris petalum revolutum ceteris intensiüs maculatum. We received specimens of this plant from A. B. Lambert, Esq., in September 1829, with the following note :—'* The Canna now sent I believe quite new; I have only one plant of it raised from seed from Laguna, in Mexico." Upon this high authority we publish it, not professing ourselves to understand the limits or peculiarities of the species of this very difficult and intricate genus. It appears to be principally distinguished from other yellow-flowered kinds by the spots upon the inner limb of the corolla, that which is rolled back being entire, by the very broad mem- branous bractex, and by the abruptly acuminate apex of the leaves. Béing a native of Mexico, it will undoubtedly succeed well in a common conservatory or greenhouse, of which it would be a striking ornament. * See fol. 1231. Lower leaves about 9 inches long, or more, tapering gradually to each end; the upper cordate, and not more than half the size. Of the bractez, the lowest is spathaceous and cucullate, the upper ones membranous, sometimes rounded, and broader than long, more frequently oblong, and much longer than the ovarium and calyx taken together; all of them glaucous. Calyx glaucous. The revolute petal more deeply spotted than the rest. Jo de ogee Aena h / f /, A rj 71 Ya Ch, y S ALAIZA / OY Su ihe E [92 CR TATA f LAGUNAS" . Mere / [GIO 1312 CL EOM E* speciosissima. Shewy Cleome. HEXANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. CAPPARIDEE. CLEOM E. — Supra, vol. 12. fol. 960. C. speciosissima ; herbacea inermis, foliis 5-7-foliolatis : foliolis lanceolatis acuminatis pilosis, bracteis ovatis, petalis pedicellorum longitudine. C. speciosissima. Deppe in litteris. Planta annua, C. roses facie, quá differt precipue foliis pilosis nullis trifoliatis, et floribus majoribus, pedicellis abbreviatis. Raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society from seeds sent by Dr. Deppe from Xalapa. It is a tender annual, requiring exactly the same treatment as Cleome rosea, to which it bears much general resemblance, but from which it differs essentially in the larger size and greater beauty of its flowers. Well adapted for planting among other border annuals in the summer, when it will ripen its seeds if the season is favourable; for a greenhouse it is less suitable, its leaves having little beauty ; but it is always advisable to have a plant or two in reserve under glass to secure seeds, in case those in the open air should fail. Flowers late in the summer. Our drawing was made in October last; but the plant had been raised only in July, the seeds not having reached England till the end f spring. ke c: Ji L. * The derivation of this name is unknown. N ET | vag l G Sucuatlilly Ayrub.1630° min mn | 1313 Apad sr WEI 1313 CALCEOLÁRIA* Herbertiána. Mr. W. Herbert's Calceolaria. — ——-pe——— DIANDRIA MONOGY NI A. Nat. ord. SCROPHULARINEA. CALCEOLARIA. — Supra, vol. 9. fol. 723. C. Herbertiana; caule fruticoso ramoso, foliis oblongis rugosis crenatis pubescentibus utrinque concoloribus, pedunculis terminalibus corymbosis pilosis, corolle labello cuneato obtuso. Suffrutex ramosus, 2-pedalis, pilosus. Folia rugosa, obtusó dentata s. crenata, inferioribus ovato-oblongis, obtusis, petiolatis, supremis sessilibus, utrinque concoloribus. Flores lutei, corymbosi ; pedunculi capillares ; calyx parvus, quadrifidus, pubescens ; corolla labello inflato, cuneato, obtuso, galed parvá, integrá. A branching shrub, about 2 feet high, almost always in flower, producing two distinct crops of blossoms; the first of which sprouts in the spring, and another in autumn: it will probably prove one of the most ornamental species yet in cultivation. A native of Chile. Our drawing was made from speci- mens communicated by the Honourable and Rev. William Herbert, in honour of whom we have taken the liberty of naming it. It is a half-hardy plant, requiring protection from severe frost in winter, but growing in the summer better in the open air than under a glass. Readily increased by cuttings. E. L. * See fol. 1214. VOL; XVI. c 1314 DENDRÓBIUM* moniliforme. Necklace-stemmed Dendrobium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. Oncuipkx. § Malaxidee. * Dendrobiew. DENDROBIUM. — Supra, vol. 7. fol. 548. Sect. Caules undique foliosi, versüs apicem sensim incrassati, unde clavati fiunt. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. of Orchideous Plants, ined. D. moniliforme ; caulibus erectis clavatis ramosis : internodiis tumidis, foliis oblongis obliqué emarginatis obtusis, floribus geminatis foliis longioribus, "P: petalisque oblongis acutis venosis, labello cucullato acuto con- ormi. Fu Ran. Kempf. amen. t. 865. Epidendrum moniliforme. Linn. sp. pl. 1352. Dendrobium moniliforme. Swartz act. Holm. 1800. p. 245. Willd. no. 19. Caulis erectus, bipedalis, levigatus, ramosus, internodiis tumidis, pallide viridibus. Folia oblonga, subdisticha, apice oblique biloba, basibus ampleai- caulibus, brevibus, membranaceis. Flores gemini, pedunculo communi insi- dentes, è caule versús apicem erumpentes, dilutà rosei, venis rubris picti. Bractee oblonge, obtuse, membranacee, leviter pilose. Labellum maculis duabus luteis in fauce. A native of China and Japan, from the former of which countries it was introduced several years since by the Horticultural Society. The figure now given was obtained from a specimen that flowered in the collection of William Cattley, Esq., at Barnet, in November last. By this gentleman it has been cultivated with great success, his plants having attained the height of two feet, and being in a state of the most vigorous health. In general it is unhealthy, grows slowly, and never flowers. It is particularly dis- * See fol. 1239. tinguished by the tumid joints of the erect stem, of which the contractions become when old so considerable, that the stem acquires something the appearance of a necklace. Thunberg describes, in his Flora Japonica (p. 30), an Epidendrum monile, to which he refers the Fu Ran of Kempfer; but he adds, that the leaves are acute, and the flowers white, which renders it probable that he in- tended some other species. Kampfer tells us, that it is suspended by the Japanese in baskets before the doors of their houses, in consequence of some vulgar superstition, the nature of which, however, he did not ascertain. Stem erect, 2 feet high, polished, branched, with pale- green, tumid joints. Leaves oblong, somewhat distichous, obliquely 2-lobed at the apex, with short, membranous, stem-clasping bases (petioles). Flowers in pairs, seated on a common peduncle, proceeding from the stem towards lts apex, pale rose-coloured, marked with red veins Bractee oblong, obtuse, membranous, slightly hairy. Za- bellum with two yellow Spots in the throat. J.-L. AUT GEMENS ho Y /3 1315 DENDRÓBIUM* longicornu. Long-horned Dendrobium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. Orckınex. $ Malaxidee. * Dendrobiee. DENDROBIUM. — Supra, vol. 7. fol. 548. Sect. Caules undique foliosi, cylindracei, sepé penduli. Lind. Gen. et 'Sp. of Orchideous Plants, ined. D. longicornu ; caulibus erectis hispidis flexuosis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis apice valdé obliquis, floribus fasciculatis v. solitariis terminalibus, bracteis ovatis acuminatis hispidis pedicello multó brevioribus, sepalis lateralibus in caleare longo acuminato connatis, petalis sepalo supremo conformibus, labello infundibulari cucullato integro dentato basi cum pede columne accreto. Dendrobium longicornu. Lindl. in Wallich cat. no. 1997. Arborum parasiticum, sepiüs dependens. Radix constans fibris cylin- dricis copiosis, carnosis, fasciculatis. ^ Caules plures, graciles, sulcati, flexuosi, semipedales seu pedales, quin bipedales, pilis paleiformibus copiosis, atris, subdecumbentibus, solubilibus conspersus, etate glabriores. Folia alterna, bifarie patentia, interstitüs triplo longiora, lineari-lanceolata, ex- trorsim attenuata, apice valde oblique bidentata, dentibus angustis, obtusis, altero abbreviato; basi acutiuscula, sessilia, brevissime vaginantia ; 3-4-pol- licaria, glabra, obsolete 3-nervia, lineata, planiuscula. Flores magni, albi, bipollicares, inodori, ylabri, pauci, terminales, nunc laterales in caulibus aphyllis, suffulti pedunculo carnoso, cylindrico, paleaceo-pilosulo, cum ovario oblongo-clavato pollices duos emetientibus. Bractewe due, lanceolate, acute, carinate, pilosule, }-unguiculares ad basin pedunculi. Sepala erecto- patentia, lanceolata, acuta, subcarinata ; superius levissime fornicatum ; lateralia columne adnata, deorsüm valdé dilatata, cumque basi columna producta in calcar longum infundibuliforme, ultenuatum, apice teres, ovarium @quans. Petala sepalis subconformia, infra superius subconni- ventia. . Labellum magnum, infundibuliforme, rectum, lamind brevi, ovatá, obtusá, subretusá, ciliato-fimbriatá ; marginibus obtusis, conniventibus ; disco papilloso-glanduloso, lineisque parallelis flavis ornato ; basi valdé attenuatá, desinens in calcar floris. Columna columnaris crassa, antice plana ; inferné * See fol. 12:39. | sepala lateralia adfigens ; parte superiore brevi libera, apice cavá lateraliter obtusé bilobatá. ^ Anthera opercularis, conica, obtusa, ope Al brevissimi postice adfixa, decidua, bilocularis. Pollen pulvereum, flavum, inclusum membranulä subtilissimá, divisá in massas duas oblongas, sulco longitudinali notatas, facile bipartibiles. —W allich MSS. For the foregoing valuable description of this rare plant we are obliged to our friend Dr. Wallich, by whom it was brought from India in 1828, and deposited in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, by permission of the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company. Dr. Wallich adds: “ This fine species is a native of most of the mountains in Nipal, where it blossoms during the rainy season. 1 have also received it from the late Mr. Smith, whose people found it on the mountains bordering on the district of Sylhet. It thrives well at the Honourable Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta, into which it has been introduced from these countries." Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- tural Society in May last. It grows pretty well in decayed vegetable mould, among moss, in the stove. An epiphyte, usually hanging down. Root formed of many cylindrical, fleshy, fasciculated fibres. Stems nu- merous, slender, furrowed, flexuose, 6 inches, a foot, or even two feet long, covered with copious, chaff-like, dark, decumbent, separable hairs, but becoming nearly smooth when old. Leaves alternate, spreading bifariously, thrice as long as the intervals, linear-lanceolate, tapering outwards, very obliquely 2-toothed at the apex; the teeth narrow, obtuse, unequal; at the base rather acute, sessile, with very short sheaths, 3 or 4 inches long, smooth, obsoletely 3-nerved, striated, nearly flat. Flowers large, white, 2 inches long, scentless, smooth, terminal, or some- times lateral, on leafless stems, placed on a fleshy, cylin- drical, hairy peduncle, measuring, with the oblong cla- vate ovarium, about 2 inches. Bractee 2, lanceolate, acute, keeled, rather hairy, half a nail long, at the base of the peduncle. Sepals erect, spreading, lanceolate, acute, somewhat keeled; the lateral ones adnate to the column, very much dilated downwards, and, together with the elongated base of the column, produced into a long, funnel-shaped spur. Petals shaped like the sepals, some- what conniving under the upper one. Labellum large, funnel-shaped, straight, with a short, ovate, blunt lamina, fringed, with a papillose glandular disk, and a few yellow lines on it. This belongs to Dr. Blume's genus Pedilonum. $T. E 1316 BAN KS/A* undulata. Waved-leaved Banksia. i TETRANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. PROTEACEE. BANKSIA. — Supra, vol. 8. fol. 688. B. undulata ; foliis cuneato-oblongis obtusis dentatis undulatis subtüs reticu- latis glabriusculis, stigmate cylindraceo sulcato, caule arboreo. Rami cinerei, tomentosi. Folia 4-5-uncias longa, cuneata, obtusa, vix truncata, in petiolo sensim attenuata, grosse serrata, undulata, subtüs viridia, reticulata, glabra, costá tomentosá. Amenta oblonga, obtusa; bractex tomentose. Calyx fulvo-sericeus, stylo multo brevior. Stylus rectus, ascendens, nunquam recurvatus. Stigma oblongum, sulcatum, glabrum. à; Whether this is any thing more than a variety of Banksia serrata, we cannot undertake to decide. lt is certainly not the same as the plant cultivated in our Gardens under that name, differing in the shortness of its leaves, and their very undulated surface. Mr. Campbell, Gardener to the Comte de Vandes, in whose collection it exists, finds it permanently distinct both from B. serrata and zemula. It is a fine greenhouse plant, attaining a height of 9 or 10 feet, and flowering in September and October. Branches ash-coloured, downy. Leaves 4 or 5 inches long, cuneate, obtuse, scarcely truncate, tapering by degrees into the petiole, coarsely serrated, wavy, green beneath, * Named in compliment to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, late President of the Royal Society, —a gentleman who will ever be remembered with gratitude, as the kindest friend, the firmest supporter, the most powerful protector, that has yet been recorded in the history of science. reticulated, smooth, with a downy midrib. Heads of flowers oblong, obtuse; bractee downy. Calyx fulvous, silky, much shorter than the style. Style straight, ascend- ing, never curved backwards. Stigma oblong, furrowed, smooth. JE. 7 d ds dU Y NFUN 77 1317 ACACIA* albida. Whitish-leaved Acacia. POLYGAMIA MONGCIA. Nat. ord. LEGuMINOsxX. $ Mimosee. ACACIA. — Supra, vol. 2. fol. 98. Sect. IV. Foliis bipinnatis, floribus in capitula globosa collectis. § 1. Aculeate. * Aculeis omnibus stipularibus rectis, leguminibus inermibus, staminibus 20 et ultra. Dec. prodr. 2. 460. A. albida ; spinis geminis abbreviatis, ramis petiolis pedunculisque pubes- centibus, pinnis 6-7-jugis, foliolis 8-10-jugis linearibus acutis, capitulis pedunculatis geminis axillaribus. Our drawing of this plant was made some years since in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it had been raised from Peruvian seeds. The specimen from which it was taken having been lost, we can give no description of it, except such as might be drawn up from the figure itself. Of this practice, which sometimes occurs, we so entirely disapprove, that we prefer to leave the history of the species openly incomplete. It is a hardy greenhouse plant, very pretty when in blossom; it bears its heads of bright yellow flowers abundantly in October. * The Zxaxíz of Dioscorides (1. 133) appears to have been our Acacia vera; but he had another plant which he called by the same name, a native of Cappadocia and Pontus, which is believed to have been Spartium spi- nosum. Some of the writers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries fancied the sloe, Prunus spinosa, to have been the Acacia of the ancients. The derivation of the name is not well made out: if we are to credit De Théis, its root is to be traced in the Celtic ac, which signifies a point; and in that case the name has been invented in allusion to the spines of the plant. The species is very near A. hebeclada of Decandolle, from which it differs in having a larger number of couples of leaves, and no hispidity on its branches, petioles, or peduncles. J. k CHEZ. 777 2 MP 7 À Y Sicccudies Arul 1.1830 ED 1318 PENTSTEMON* deustum. Parched Pentstemon. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. SCROPHULARINEA. PENTSTEMON. — Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1121. P. deustum ; caule subsimplici ascendente glabro, foliis inciso-serratis : radi- calibus ovato-oblongis, proximis spatulatis, caulinis oblongis acutis ses- silibus, supremis subintegris, calycibus glabris, limbi plani laciniis retusis supremis minoribus. P. deustum. Douglas in herb. Hort. Soc. ; Caulis ascendens, pedalis, v. sesquipedalis, glaber. Folia glabra, radi- calia, longe petiolata, ovata, inferiora spatulata, obtusa; caulina oblonga, sessilia, subamplexicaulia, omnia grossé et inequaliter inciso-serrata. Flores arcte paniculati, ochroleuci, minores, calycibus corollisque glabris. Native of North-west America, where it was found by Mr. Douglas on scorched, rocky plains, in the interior. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- tural Society in September 1829. A hardy perennial, increased readily by division, and growing well in any common garden soil: it is very near P. confertum and attenuatum, from both of which it differs in its coarsely jagged leaves ; which, however, exhibit that character more in the wild specimens than in the cultivated plant. Stem ascending, a foot or a foot and a half high, smooth. Leaves smooth, the radical ones on long stalks, ovate, the singen - - =" * See fol. 1245. lower spatulate, obtuse; the cauline oblong, sessile, some- what stem-clasping, all of them coarsely and unequally cut-serrated. Flowers in compact panicles, pale yellow, below the usual size; the calyxes and corollas smooth. J. Ki * : VID « v V CLG IC e ,. ALAS he L Y Le Wi T P j pe . A 7 1319 GREVILLEA* punicea. Scarlet Grevillea. — eM TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PRoTEACE s. GREVILLEA. — Supra, vol. 6. fol. 443. G. punicea ; foliis elliptico-oblongis basi subattenuatis marginibus refractis, ramulis floriferis racemoque abbreviato recurvis, barbá interiore peri- anthii oblongá dimidium inferius unguium equante, pistillis uncialibus. R. Brown prodr. 1. 232. ed. Germ. Embothrium sericeum 8. Smith New Holl. 25. t. 9. f. 5. B. Lyssanthe speciosa. Knight et Salisb. prot. p. 118? Grevillea punicea. Brown in Linn. trans. vol. 10. p. 169. Frutex ramosus, ramulis angulatis, pilosis. Folia lanceolata, mucronata, marginibus recurvis, subtüs sericea. Flores punicei, extüs pubescentes; calyce barbá longá albá intüs vestito. Pistilla glabra. This beautiful species is very nearly related to G. sericea, with which it was confounded by Sir James Smith; but from which it differs in the greater length of the pistillum, and the much longer beard which clothes the inside of each division of the calyx. We scarcely know a more desirable ereenhouse plant. Our drawing was made from a specimen obligingly communicated by Mr. Mackay, of Clapton, in June 1829. Mr. Brown characterises it by the want of a mucro to the leaves; a circumstance in which it would, there- fore, differ from G. sericea; but we do not find any varia- tion in this particular between the two plants. A branching shrub, with angular, hairy twigs. Leaves lanceolate, mucronate, recurved at the edges, silky beneath. Flowers deep purple, downy outside; the calyx clothed internally with a long white beard. Pistillum smooth. de * Named in honour of the Right Hon. Charles Francis Greville, a great promoter of Natural History. 1320 CAPPARIS* acumináta. Taper-pointed Caper. POLYANDRIA MONOGY NI A. Nat. ord. CAPPARIDE&. Trib. II. Capparee. Fructus subcarnosus indehiscéns. aut arbores. Decand. prodr. 1. 242. CAPPARIS Linn.— Calyx 4-partitus. Petala quatuor. Torus parvus. Thecaphorum gracile. Stamina 00.: Siliqua subbaccata, stipitata. —— Frutices foliis simplicibus, integris. Dee. I. c. Frutices Sect. 1. Eucapparis. Alabastrum globosum, sepalis ovatis concavis obtusis imbricatis insequalibus. Thecaphorum longum. Species omnes Veteris Orbis aut Nove Hollandise nec Americee incole. Dec. * Pedicellis axillaribus solitariis, aut rarids 2-3 ex eodem puncto ortis, floribus polyandris. : ds. 3 C. acuminata ; inermis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis glaberrimis, pedi- cellis unifloris solitariis petiolis paulo longioribus. ; i Caulis fruticosus, in ollá 3-pedalis, ramis subflexuosis, glabris. Folia petiolata, ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, utrinque glaberrima. Flores azil- lares, solitarii, pedunculo petiolo paulò longiore. Sepala 4, ovata, ciliata. Petala totidem, parva, obovata. Stamina longissima, inequalia. This beautiful species of Caper was sent from China by John Reeves, Esq. to the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden it blossomed in September 1828. It is a tender greenhouse shrub, with neat foliage, and handsome scent- less flowers, which are not, however, so beautiful as those of the common Caper plant, which is one of the most striking objects we have in cultivation. If this be compared with Cleome speciosissima, figured at fol. 1312, the student of natural affinities, or the mere * Said by Forskah] to take its origin from its Arabic name kabar, adopted into the Greek and Latin languages. VOL. XVI. D casual observer, will have no difficulty in recognising their obvious relationship, especially if the details of fructifica- tion be carefully considered ; but if either of those plants be compared with the Mignonette, it will not be found so easy to reconcile the habit and structure of that plant with such as this ; and a tyro would be tempted to lay aside the study of a natural system, in which such combinations are admitted, as something unintelligible and delusive. We should not only not wonder at such an effect being pro- duced, but should partake in the opinion ourselves. To us it seems, that if the principles upon which a natural system of Botany is founded, are such as to render it necessary to combine Reseda and Capparis, those principles must re- quire reconsideration; but we think the combination alluded to, for which several eminent Botanists contend, is not reconcilable with even the present state of our knowledge of vegetable comparative anatomy. Stem shrubby, growing about 3 feet high in a pot, with somewhat flexuose, smooth branches. Leaves stalked, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, smooth on each side. Flowers white, axillary, solitary, their peduncle rather longer than the petiole. Sepals 4, ovate, ciliated. Petals the same number, small, obovate. Stamens very long, unequal. 3 1 ——— 1321 PACHYPÓDIUM* tuberósum. Tuberous Pachypodium. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. APOCYNEE. PACHYPODIUM.— Corolla hypocrateriformis, fauce tuboque esqua- matis; laciniis limbi 5-partiti «equilateris. Stamina inclusa, medio tubo inserta; anthere sagittatee, subsessiles. Ovaria duo; styli 2. Squamae hypogyne nulle. Folliculi ovati. Frutices carnosi, spinis ınfra- petiolaribus bilobis trilobisve. Folia sparsa. Flores axillares v. ‚ter- minales. P. tuberosum; caule basi tuberosá, spinis rectis subulatis, foliis oblongis subtüs tomentosis. ? Echites succulenta: ‘Thunberg. prodr. p. 37. ib. nov. act. Petrop. v. 14. p. 505. t. 9. f. 2. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1241. Römer et Schultes, 4. 392. Spreng. syst. 1.631. ce Caulis basi sphericus, tuberosus, levis, ramis teretibus, succulentis, divisis, spinosis : spinis infra folia provenientibus, bi-trilobis, subulatis, planis. Folia sparsa, sessilia, oblonga, obtusa, carnosa, subtüs tomentosa. Calyx inferus, 5-phyllus, foliolis ovatis, acutis, pilosis, imbricatis. Corolla hypocrateri- Jormis, extús pilosa, tubo medio ventricoso, intüs infra antheras piloso ; limbo contorto : laciniis equilateris, oblongis, obtusis, subunguiculatis : fauce nudd. Stamina medio tubo inserta; antheree sessiles, sagittate, longi- tudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium didymum, polyspermum. Styli duo. Squame hypogyne nulle. uni ————— When Mr. Brown remodelled the order of Apocynez in 1809, he pointed out the Echites succulenta and bispinosa, two remarkable Cape plants, which he had had no oppor- tunity of examining, as likely to constitute a distinct genus. In this opinion, the plant now figured shews that he was right. It evidently differs from Echites, in the segments of the corolla being equal-sided, and in the want of hypo- * From ways, thick, and ze); »odos, a foot; in allusion to its succulent stem and swollen root. gynous scales; and is more nearly allied to Holarrhena, which differs in having its stamens arising from the bottom of the corolla instead of the middle, regularly opposite leaves, and whole habit. This plant offers an exception to the usual position of the leaves in Apocynee; they are not opposite, as in the order generally, but scattered irregularly over the surface of the stem; a circumstance which appears to be owing to the unusually succulent and distended state of the stem. A native of barren, sandy plains, at the Cape of Good Hope. If it is the Echites succulenta, it was found by Mr. Burchell in the Kloof and its mountains ; but upon this point there is some doubt. It agrees with neither the figure nor description of Thunberg, in minor details ; but it has so much general resemblance, that it is very probable they are the same,—allowance being made for Thunberg's loose mode of description. Our drawing was made at Mr. Tate's N ursery, in August 1828. Stem spherical at the base, tuberous, smooth ; branches taper, succulent, divided, spiny. Spines proceeding from below the leaves, 2- or 3-lobed, subulate, flat. Leaves scattered, sessile, oblong, obtuse, fleshy, downy beneath. Caly inferior, 9-leaved ; leaflets ovate, acute, hairy, imbri- cated. Corolla hypocrateriform, haity on the outside; the tube inflated in the middle, hairy inside below the stamens; limb contorted; segments equal-sided, oblong, obtuse, slightly unguiculate; throat naked. Stamens inserted in the middle of the tube; anthers sessile, sagittate, opening lengthwise. Ovarium double, many-seeded. Styles 2. Hypogynous scales none. J. L. 1322 CASSIA* austrális. New Holland Cassia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LgcuMiNosx. $ Cassiee. CASSIA. — Supra, vol. 1. fol. 83. Sect. CHAMESENNA. Calycis sepala obtusa. Anthere oblonge biporose. Legumina com- pressa dehiscentia suturis subtumidulis, intüs septis transversis completis aut incompletis multilocularia, loculis non pulposis. Semina verticalia, seu valvis parallelè compressa, ovata, aut subquadrata, latitudinem leguminis subæquantia, funiculo longiora. Dec. prodr. 2. 493. $. Coluteoidez ; fruticose, pauci- aut multifoliolate. — C. australis; foliolis 9-10-(12?)-jugis lineari-oblongis glabriusculis obtusis mucronatis, glandulá subulatá inter omnia paria, pedunculis tri-quinque- floris foliis brevioribus. C. australis. Bot. mag. 2676. ? wt Caulis erectus, fruticosus, sulcatus, pubescens. Folia pilosiuscula, hori- zontalia ; foliolis 10-jugis, lineari-oblongis, mucronatis, petiolo subalato, glanduld subulatá inter omnia paria; stipule subulate. Pedunculi axil- lares et terminales, foliis breviores, 3-5-flori, floribus approximatis. Sepala subpilosa. Petala vitellina, subequalia. A native of the banks of the Hastings, in New South Wales, whence seeds are often sent to England. It is one of the handsomest of the genus, and highly deserving of cultivation, as a plant to occupy the open border of a Conservatory. In their native places, Cassias are often among the most beautiful bushes of the forest, covered with myriads of flowers of the richest yellow, and scarcely inferior in the gracefulness of their foliage to the Mimosa itself; yet im * See fol. 1310. our Gardens they are generally unsightly and neglected ; a circumstance which arises entirely out of our bad or imperfect cultivation. We grow them in a pot, where they are suffered to languish; or, if they attempt to push vigorously, the pruning knife is freely employed to restrain them within such a space as the gardener can afford. They will not bear pruning; they require plenty of space to grow, and encouragement rather than restraint. If a more liberal and judicious management were adopted, many species, particularly this, would amply repay the care of the cultivator. Our drawing was made some time since from a specimen communicated by A. B. Lambert, Esq. Flowers in May and June. The blossoms are fragrant, with a scent like that of a Heliotrope. According to the Botanical Magazine, the pairs of leaves are sometimes 12. Stem erect, shrubby, furrowed, pubescent. Leaves somewhat hairy, horizontal; leaflets in 10 pairs, linear- oblong, mucronate, with a somewhat winged petiole, and a subulate gland between each pair; stipules subulate. Peduncles axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves, each with 3 to 5 flowers, placed close together. Sepals somewhat pilose. Petals deep yellow, nearly equal. JL — ——————Á' A 777 UH p S Duagwagy 169 ooi May | SEI. 1323 CONVOLVULUS* farinósus. Mealy-stemmed Convolvulus. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Cox voLvuLACEX. CONVOLVULUS. — Supra, vol. 3. fol. 222. C. farinosus ; foliis cordatis acuminatis repandis, pedunculis trifloris, caule farinoso. Römer et Schultes species plant. 4. 278. C. farinosus. Linn. Mantiss. 2.203. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 846. Smith prodr. Jl. Grec. Sibth. 1. 133. Jacq. hort. vind. 1. 135. C. farinosus ; foliis subsagittatis oblongis acuminatis repandis suprà rugosis subtüs venosis, pedunculis folio longioribus, calycibus conniventibus, caule farinoso, Spreng. syst. 1. 598. Caules debiles, volubiles, tomentosi. Folia tomentosa, petiolata, cor- data, v. hastata, v. sagittata, acuminata, leviter repanda. Pedunculi sepids triflori, foliis nunc longiores, nunc breviores. Bràcteæ subulate. Sepala glabra, ovata, mucronata, Corolla im genere minima, limbo acute pentagono. . Stigmata 2, filiformia. Our drawing of this neat little perennial was made some years ago in Mr. Colvill's Nursery. lt represents the upper end of a branch, in which the leaves are merely cordate; but towards the root they become sagittate, or even hastate. The peduncles vary in length, some being shorter, some longer, than the leaves; the flowers are also either three, or some other number; the former is, however, most common. A native of Madeira, whence it was introduced to the Kew Garden by Masson, in 1777. Also found by * So called from convolvo, to twine round; in allusion to the most usual habit of the genus. Dr. Sibthorp in the fields and hedges of Mysia, Livadia, and the Peloponnesus, very common. A half-hardy plant, growing out of doors in the summer, but requiring protection from frost in winter. Stems weak, twining, downy. Leaves also downy, on long stalks, cordate, or hastate, or sagittate, acuminate, slightly repand. Peduncles usually 3-flowered, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, than the leaves. Bractee subulate. Sepals smooth, ovate, mucronate. Corolla very small for the genus, with an acutely pentagonal limb. Stigmas 2, filiform. J. E. NOTE. _ Mr. Don has obligingly informed us, that Canna lagunensis, fol. 1311, is certainly C. pallida cf Roscoe's Scitamineous Plants, t. 19. We regret exceedingly that we have no ready means of access to this costly work, which we believe requires to be collated with the Botanical Register in several other articles. The species having been kindly communicated to us as new by Mr. Lambert, it is to be considered as having been published under the high authority of that gentleman rather than our own. if $ REY "aa « ur 1324 ASTRAGALUS* aüecalentde. Succulent Milk Vetch. — DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LeGuMINOSA. ASTRAGALUS. — Supra, vol. 2. fol. 176. l. PurpurascenTes; stipulis Q petiolo liberis, floribus purpu- rascentibus. $ 3, Onobrychoidei ; stipulis.à petiolo et inter se distinctis, floribus pur- purascentibus dense spicatis capitatisve, vexillis linearibus elongatis, legu- minibus rectis rariús falcatis, radicibus perennibus. Dec. prodr. 2. 285. A. succulentus ; decumbens glabriusculus, foliolis ovalibus obtusis, stipulis triangularibus, spicis confertis pedunculatis folio brevioribus. Spreng. Syst. 4. part 2. p. 288. A. succulentus. Richardson in-Franklin's journey. Prostratus, undique leviter pubescens. ^ Folia ascendentia, foliolis 10-12-jugis, oblongis, obtusis ; stipulis membranaceis, triquetris. Pedunculi ascendentes, ad apicem racemosi, multiflori. Bractew ovate, acuminate, scariose. Calyx pedicellatus, tubulosus, 5-dentatus, pilis nigris obsitus. Flores purpurascentes. Vexillum oblongum. Originally found by Dr. Richardson in Arctic America, and published by him in the Supplement to Captain Sir John Franklin's account of his memorable expedition. e are not aware that any seeds were brought home at that time. The plant from which our drawing was made came up from seeds collected by Mr. Douglas in the vicinity of the Sascatchewan River, a stream which rises in the Rocky Mountains, in the country of the Arthabascow Indians, in latitude 53° or 54° north, and, after running Pen nn nn Ain The dergáyaros of Dioscorides was the Orobus vernus : why a word signifying a vertebral bone of an animal, or a die used for play, was applied to that species, we do not know. due east, empties itself into the northern end of Lake Winnipeg. It is an unpretending, hardy, herbaceous plant, growing freely in peat, among other plants, and flowering in June. Its fruit is not certainly known. We suspect it to be of the same nature as that of Astragalus caryocarpus, figured at fol. 176 of this work; at least there is in Mr. Douglas's collection a fruit of such a kind, which does not appear to belong to any other of his species. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- tural Society. Prostrate, with a slight hairiness upon every part. Leaves ascending; leaflets in 10 or 12 pairs, oblong, obtuse; stipules membranous, triangular. Peduncles ascending, racemose at the extremity, many-flowered. Bractee ovate, acuminate, scarious. Calyx pedicellate, tubular, 5-toothed, covered with a few black hairs. Flowers purplish. Veril- lum oblong. J.-L. 3 2 1325 LOBELLA* purpurea. Purple Lobelia. SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. Nat. ord. LoBELIACEX. LOBELIA. — Supra, vol. 1. fol. 60. L. purpurea ; caule suffruticoso, foliis lanceolatis serrulatis glabris, floribus racemosis, bracteis ovatis integris, calyce spheerico: dentibus ovatis acutis, corolla alté fissá 5-partitá: laciniis parallelis falcatis secundis. Caulis suffruticosus, erectus, glaber, indivisus. Folia coriacea, lanceolata, serrulata, acuta, utrinque glabra ; superiora nunc dilatata, obtusa, apice denticulata, nunc in bracteis subintegris abeuntia. Flores in axillis brac- tearum, racemum terminalem constituentes. Calyx subrotundus, 10-costatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus et pedicellis pubescentibus. Corolla amené purpurea, "unciam longa, hinc alte fissa, laciniis linearibus, apice conniventibus, fal- catis, secundis. Stamina monadelpha ; tubo apice: incurvo; anthere con- nate, mutice. Capsula bilocularis, apice bivalvis, polysperma, placentis in medio dissepimenti. Stigma bilobum. A native of Chile, where it was found in the neighbour- hood of Valparaiso by Mr. M‘Rae, in February 1825. He sent seeds to the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden our drawing was made in August 1828. It is a handsome half-shrubby plant, growing in the open border in the summer, but requiring protection in the winter. It does not ripen its seeds, and can only be increased by cuttings, or division of the crown of the root. Stem half-shrubby, erect, smooth, undivided. Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate, serrulate, acute, smooth on each side; the upper ones sometimes dilated, obtuse, with teeth at the end, more frequently passing insensibly into nearly entire bractex. Flowers axillary, forming a terminal raceme. nn ý Ji ERES * See fol. 1200. Calyx roundish, 10-ribbed, 5-toothed ; both the teeth and the pedicel pubescent. Corolla bright purple, an inch long, deeply split on one side; segments linear, conniving at the apex, falcate, all turned to one side. Stamens mona- delphous, their tube incurved at the apex ; anthers connate, destitute of appendages. Capsule 2-celled, 2-valved at the apex, many-seeded, with the placente in the middle of the dissepiment. Stigma 2-lobed. J.L mn nen E, Halb? 4 ly 2 Andgway 169 Siccanstly May 1.103 0- 1326 LINUM* mexicänum. Mexican Flax. PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. Linen. LINUM. — Supra, vol. 14. fol. 1163. L. mexicanum ; glabrum, erectum, superné paniculato-ramosum; foliis sparsis, ovatis v. ovato-oblongis, acutis, basi rotundatis ; sepalis ovatis, acutis, subciliatis; stylis ad medium connatis ; stigmatibus globosis ; capsulis acuto-mucronatis. Bentham. Linum mexicanum. Humboldt, Bonpl. et Kunth nova genera et sp. pl. 6. p. 39. Dec. prodr. 1. 424. . Our drawing of this rare species of Flax was made in August last, at Mr. Tate’s Nursery. It is a very pretty half-hardy perennial, native of woods near Santa Rosa, in Mexico, where it was found by Humboldt and Bonpland. Probably propagated by cuttings. . For the following remarks upon this, and some neighbouring species, we are indebted to Mr. Bentham. . “ The coalition of the styles in this, and several other species of yellow inums, is a character which appears to have been generally overlooked in the distinction of the species. It is very remarkable in the L. Macrat (described below), where the style is very long, and only slightly quinquefid at the apex: in the above L. mexicanum, and in the L. africanum Linn. (L. mono- 9ynum Forst.), and L. repens Hamilt., the styles are connate up to about the middle of their length; and at the base only in the L. ethiopicum Thunb. (L. africanum Reichb. icon. exot. t. 46, non Linn.), rigidum Pursh, virginianum Linn., and mysurense Heyne. In the L. gallicum Linn., aureum W., et K., setaceum Brot. (L. bicolor Schousb.), luteolum Bieb., nodiflorum Linn., strictum Linn., corymbiferum Desf., maritimum. Linn., glandulosum Mench., quadrifolium Linn., trigynum Roxb., and tetragynum Colebr., the styles are entirely distinct from their base. , * According to De Théis, the Celtic lin, thread, is the origin of linseed, Ao», linum, linen, linnett, and similar words. The use of linum or flax would therefore appear to be of very high antiquity. In the L. glandulosum, luteolum, nodiflorum, and corymbiferum, the stigmates are not globular, as in most of the species of this genus, but elongated, and scarcely thicker than the styles. I take this opportunity of subjoining the characters of three new species of Linum belonging to Decandolle's first division, floribus flavis. L. Macrei, glabrum; caulibus basi fruticosis, ramis erectis; foliis oppositis alternisve, lanceolatis, acuminatis, rigidis ; sepalis ovatis, acuminatis; petalis calyce duplo longioribus; stylo corollam subequante, apice breviter quinquefido; stigmatibus globosis; capsulis acuto-mucronatis. Flowers of the same size as those of L. maritimum or tenuifolium. In habit the plant resembles the L. africanum, from which it differs chiefly by the shorter leaves less frequently opposite, and by the conformation of the styles. It was gathered at Valparaiso by Mr. M'Rae, collector to the Horticultural Society. L. mysurense (Heyne MSS. ex Wall. cat. herb. ind. no. 1507), glabrum, erectum; foliis alternis, oblongis, obtusis, basi attenuatis; floribus paniculato-corymbosis ; sepalis ovatis, acutiusculis, margine subciliatis; petalis calycem breviter superantibus ; stylis basi connatis ; stigmatibus globosis ; capsulá acuto-mucronatá. A small annual, resembling in habit and in the size of the flower, the L. gallicum or L. virginianum, but differing from both by the broader and more obtuse leaves, and by the ovate sepals but slightly acute, not acuminate. The flowers appear to be yellow.—From Dr. Heyne’s collection in the East India Company’s Herbarium, where it is marked by him with the names of L. mysurense and L. humile. L. tetragynum (Colebr. MSS. ex Wall. cat. herb. ind. no. 1506), glabrum, fruticosum, ramosum ; foliis elliptico-oblongis, acuminatis, serratis, basi attenuatis, petiolatis ; floribus capitato-corymbosis ; pedunculis bracteatis ; sepalis ovatis, breviter acuminatis, margine subciliatis; petalis calyce dupló longioribus; stylis 4, liberis; stigmatibus globosis ; capsulis obtusis. A native of Nipal and Sylhet. (Wallich.) Flowers yellow, rather smaller than in the L. trigynum. Inflorescence similar to that of the variety of L. repens, which appears to have been described by Don as L. Cicanobum. ; The three East Indian frutescent Linums (L. trigynum, repens, and tetragynum) differ from the others by their frutescent stem, large penni- nerved leaves, and by the capsule obtuse or depressed at the top, and less distinctly divided into separate carpella. They might form a good section, though there do not appear to be ck sufficient to distinguish them as a genus, The L. repens has the leaves serrate, and the styles connate to about the middle oftheir length. It has been figured by Smith (exot. bot. t. 15) as L. trigynum; and I am disposed to consider the L. Cicanobum (Hamilt. in Don prodr. A, nep. p. 217) as a mere variety, or rather a state depending on the age of the plant. The true L. trigynum is well figured in the Bot. mag. t. 1100. It has the leaves entire, and the styles distinct from the base." J. L. neon À e—Y o, Y —sá e yd Pg TQ Gs Aff Y 170977 Pa ES LLL SIAM LAA yy, Hay.’ 12 . » Ay May VARLAPLE ^M » us 7 Y c t E77B PU UL / f u GAMA ——— —— adie e ~ A 1327 ERYTHRÍNA* carnea. Flesh-coloured Coral Tree. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOS&. ERYTHRINA. — Supra, vol. 4. fol. 313. E. carnea ; caule arboreo subaculeato, petiolis inermibus, foliolis laté ovato- rhombeis acutis glabris, vexillo lineari-oblongato, calyce campanulato truncato. Dec. prodr. 2. 411. E. carnea. Ait. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 8. E. americana. Mill. dict. n. 9. Trew. Ehret, 2. t. 8. A. foliis subtús puberulis. Supra, vol. 5. fol. 389. Caulis aculeis brevibus, uncatis. Folia ternata, rotundato-ovata, leviter cordata, acuta, utrinque glabra, petiolo subaculeato. Racemi coetanet, 4-6 uncias longi, erecti, leviter pubescentes, Calyx tubulosus, truncatus, crenis 5 minoribus. Corolla pallide carnea, 1} unciam longa; vexillum lineare, complicatum ; ale et carina equales, intrà calycem incluse, acute. Ovarium pubescens. : een The plant which is represented at fol. 389 of this work ut a downy-leaved is not the genuine Erythrina carnea, b variety, with smaller flowers, and a less prickly stem. For the opportunity of figuring the species, as originally de- scribed by Miller, and drawn by Ehret, we are indebted to the Comte de Vandes, in whose hothouse at Bayswater our specimen was produced in March 1827. A native of the hottest parts of South America, particu- larly of Vera Cruz and Santa Martha, whence seeds were originally sent to Miller by Houston. It is rather a hand- some plant while in flower, but not particularly worth cultivating at any other time. de Stem furnished with short, hooked prickles. Leaves * See fol. 1246. ternate, roundish ovate, very slightly cordate at the base, acute, smooth on each side, with a slightly prickly petiole. Racemes appearing along with the leaves, from 4 to 6 inches long, erect, very slightly pubescent. Calyxes tubular, truncate, with 5 small crenatures. Corolla pale flesh- colour, about an inch and a half long; verillum linear; ale and carina of equal length, both included within the calyx, acute. Ovarium pubescent. J. L. A nn Fe CE Li a OS qiu V LAOS S 1328 ANON A* laurifólia. ’ Laurel-leaved Custard Apple. POLYANDRIA POLYGY NIA. Nat. ord. ANONACER. ANONA Adans. — Calyx 3-partitus 3-lobusve, lobis concavis sub- cordatis acutiusculis. Petala 6, crassiuscula, interiora minora aut nulla. Anthere plurime subsessiles apice angulate dilatatee torum obtegentes. Carpella plurima coalita in baccam unicam sessilem cortice muricato squa- moso aut reticulato, intús pulposam ad ambitum multilocularem, loculis monospermis. Arbores aut frutices, cortice sepe reticulato glanduloso aromatico ; folia integra interdüm pellucido-punctata ; pedunculi axillares aut oppositifolii, sepe solitarii, uni- aut pauciflori, interdùm bracteolati.— Decand. syst. 1. 466. A. laurifolia ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis glabris, pedunculis solitariis unifloris pendulis, petalis exterioribus cordatis acutis, interioribus rotundatis, fructibus mammæformibus levibus. Dec. l. c. A. fructu lævi viridi pyri inversi forma. Catesby carol. 2. p. 67. t. 67. A. glabra, var. 8. Lam. dict. 2. 125. A. laurifolia. Dunal monogr. p. 65. Dec. prodr. 1. 84. . Sepala fria, ovata, acuta, persistentia. Petala coriacea, aurantiaca ; tria exteriora 13 unciam longa, oblonga, plana, subcordata, estivatione valvata ; tria interiora breviora, subrotunda, unguiculata, cucullata, utrinque maculá pallidá. Stamina indefinita, in torum hypogynum convexum pilosum dense aggregata ; anthere adnate, extrorse, lineares, biloculares, pollinis granulis in utroque loculo serie duplici coherentibus. Ovaria indefinita, densissime aggregata et agglutinata, villosa, recta, subulata, apice stigma viscidum, carnosum, cylindraceum gerentia, unilocularia ; ovulum solitarium, erectum. A small tree, found wild in St. Domingo, Ilatera, Andros, and other islands of the Caribean Sea; and also upon the continent of America, from the most southern to the most noa; names which some of : Apparentl i or ion PB > corp of mea The word has no reference these plants bear in the Malayan archipelago. to the Latin annona, provision, VOL. XVI. E northern limit of the tropic. Catesby found it in Carolina; and the plant from which this drawing was made was raised from seeds sent to the Horticultural Society by R. Hesketh, Esq., his Majesty Consul-General at Maranhao. Flowers in the stove in August. Its blossoms are singular, but not fragrant; the fruit does not seem to be of any value; the foliage is particularly handsome. The pollen was observed to collect in two rows in each cell of the anther, and so to fall out, as is represented in the small figures at the bottom of the accompanying plate ; an unusual economy of the granules, the cause of which, as connected with the general structure of the sexual ap- paratus, it is difficult to comprehend. Jod TN N T VN WA N y Í WY iu € Y VIN N NUN NON NUN | \\ UN) V » ‘ ^ © V —— He. 1329 MAMMILLARIA* pulchra. Handsome Mammillaria. ICOSANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. CacrEx Dec. Tribus Opuntiacee ; semina parietibus bacce affixa. MAMMILLARIA Haworth.—Cotyledones nulle. Suffrutices subro- tundi v. oblongo-cylindrici, crassi, carnosi, absque axe ligneo ; lactescentes (an semper?) aphylli, mammillis spiniferis crebré creberriméve tecti. Flores axillares, inter mammillarum bases. —Haworth synops. succ. 177. M. pulchra ; oblongo-cylindrica, spinis subsenis supernis majusculis patulis fulvis; subquatuordenis eodem spinario inferioribus minutis horizon- talibus niveis. Haworth MSS. : hoses Plante nostre simplices, perennes, virides, 4-5 unciales, diametro biunciali, apice lanatá, depressá, spinis demúm intertextis undique tecta. Mammille numerose, ovato-pyramidales, majuscule seu mediocres, in circiter 11-13 Ordines concinne spiraliter contortuplicate. Spinarium (wm_ hoc genere insuper mammillarum apices) tomentosum, sub-20-spinigerum. Spine subsex apicales, patuli, seu subsemihorizontales, 6-9, lineares, et sepiús aliquantil- lum recurvulantes ; alieque (spinulee) sub-14 setiformes radianter hori- zontales, vel subrecurve, et ceteris multoties minores. Flores in hoc genere inter majores rosei, parüm infra plante apicem, per mammillarum go lanato-setuligeras subambienter progredientes.— Pone M. fulvispinam Haw. in Phil. Mag. Z. c. cui forsan mimis affinis (sed vix), certe locarem.— Haw. MSS, “ This figure represents a remarkable and new species of greenhouse plant, of the most succulent kind, presented, with other Mexican plants, to the Garden of the Horticul- tural Society at Chiswick, by Sir J. Lubbock, in December 1826. A great many of its affinities are now IN oul Gardens ; and they are so impatient of water In winter, that they succeed best when planted in small pots of light sandy soil, and each plunged into another larger pot, ın y oi PA iere * So called from mamma, a teat: the whole surface of these plants is covered with projections resembling the teats of an animal. which only, water should be given once a fortnight in winter, and once or twice a week in summer, as occasion requires. They may be increased by seeds, or by decapi- tation in summer, in the usual way, taking special care to dry their wounds properly in some shaded place before planting, and lightly watering them to settle the earth at the time. ** M. pulchra isa simple, oblong, cylindrical, green plant, with a depressed woolly apex, and almost covered with unequal spines, beautifully and intricately arranged in 11-13 symmetrical, very spiral rows. The mammille are rather large, and ovately pyramidal. The flowers are pro- duced, near the summit of the plant, from the woolly axille of the mammille, solitarily, but nearly in a row, are rather large in this genus, and of a rosy colour, opening with us in the month of June. “ It may be added, that about six of the superior spines are fulvous, and on the apex of each mammilla, and many times larger, though less expanded, than the basal niveous ones, which are about fourteen in number, and like very small sete, elegantly radiating in a nearly horizontal way, or slightly recurving. “ This plant will arrange next M. fulvispina, to which it is doubtless very closely allied, but appears both in character and country distinct."— Haw. We are greatly indebted to Mr. Haworth for the deter- mination of this species, which belongs to a tribe so numerous and little known, that it would have been scarcely possible for a Botanist less skilful in the knowledge of succulent plants, to have discovered whether it had been previously described or not. | Mr. Haworth employs the term spinarium in his specific character, for the corneous place out of which the spines of Cacti proceed, and into which he finds them fitted, as the teeth of animals are into the socket of the jawbone of animals. A very curious structure. £i — — A A — 1330 MIMULUS* propinquus. Dwarf Yellow Monkey-flower. — <> —__—_—_ DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. SCROPHULARINER. MIMULUS. — Supra, vol. 11. fol. 874. M. propinquus ; annuus, undique glanduloso-pubescens, caule decumbente tereti, foliis ovatis dentatis: supremis sessilibus, pedunculis axillaribus foliis brevioribus pubescentibus, corollee lobis obtusis : fauce pubescente ; tubo calyci quali. , Herba, habitu M. guttati, sed omnibus partibus, presertim. floribus, minor. Caules et folia magis carnosa, et undique glanduloso-pubescens. Pedunculi pubescentes, foliis breviores. Calyx carnosus, leviter pubescens, dentibus duábus inferioribus rotundatis, supremd ceteris majore, demüm subfalcatá. Corolla figurá omnind M. guttati; sed tripló minor, lobis planioribus, et fauce minis barbatá. Raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society from seeds brought from North-west America by Mr. Douglas. It is a hardy annual, flowering freely from May to October, and producing seed in great abundance. . Like all its genus, it will always increase by the seeds it naturally scatters upon the soil; so that a Garden in which it has once been planted is scarcely likely to lose 1t, unless it be destroyed designedly. It is by no means so handsome as M. luteus, rivularis, or guttatus; but it 1s a pretty addition to the species of this very interesting group. The stigma of all the genus offers a beautiful example of vegetable irritability. When at rest its two broad lobes lie apart, their margins being separated by a considerable interval; but upon touching the stigma with a bristle, or some such body, the lobes instantly collapse with great rapidity. J-L in allusion to the resemblance of the * So called from «uo, a monkey ; fap d Pliny has a mimulus ; but it is flower to the visage of a grinning monkey. not known what he meant. 1331 CACTUS* (Epiphyllum) Ackermanni. Ackermann’s Mexican Cactus. > ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CactEx. CACTUS. — Supra, vol. 2. fol. 137. Subgenus: Erıpsyınum Hermann.-—Corolle tubus longissimus, me- diocris, v. brevissimus, sparsim et remote squamulosus, inermis, è crenis ramulorum ortus, inter perpusillas et innocuas spinulas ; limbus (corollæ fugacis) altè multifidus, vel quasi polypetaloideus, rosaceus, aut subindè plus minus elegantissimè ringens. Suf- frutices Americe calidioris ramosi, graciles, sed vit scandentes 31% scopulos rupesve, vel super arborum truncos; ramulis alatim com- pressissimis, tenuibus sed carnosulis, lobato-crenatis, viridibus, levibus, axi centrali gracili ligneo. Flores solitarii, sepiüs magnt speciosi, albi rosei coccineive, rarius suaveolentes.—Haworth in Phil. Mag. Aug. 1829. C. (Epiphyllum) Ackermanni; corollà maxima obsoletissimé ringente ante florescentiam assurgente, apice acuto; quàm tubus feré quadrupló longiore. Haworth l. c. Facies C. phyllanthoidis, at ramorum lobi pauciores, obtusiores, et. fere auriculiformes; et in eorum axillis spinule ordinarie forte magis conspicue. Flores solitarii, sed numerosi, et affinium more directione ferè horizontali ; tubo cum germine plusquam unciali, sordidé viridi, et quas? quinquangulari ? decursione squamularum paucarum seu remotarum et calycinarum. Petala imbricata, acuminata, nitentia, inferiora longe minora, canaliculatim carı- nata, apice recurvula ; summa quasi biserialia, semi-expansa, lanceolata, coccinea; horum celum versüs oblonga et lanceolata, cetera terram spec- tantia oblonga et angustiora. Genitalia ut in affinibus, corollá breviora, declinata, rosea, sed, apicem versús curvatim ascendentia ; stylo humiliora, stigmatibus circiter septem.—Haworth |. c. * Theophrastus has a xéxre;, which is the modern Cynara Cardunculus, Cardoon or Chardon, the petioles of which are used as a delicate vegetable : it had no other resemblance to the modern Cactus than in being prickly. Epiphyllum, which signifies ** upon a leaf," is a name given long since, under the idea that the stems of these plants were leaves, and that consequently the flowers grew upon leaves. This splendid plant is a native of Mexico, whence a part of a stem was brought by Mr. George Ackermann, in compliment to whom the species has been named by Mr. Haworth. The original stem was given to Mr. Tate, in whose Nursery it flowered in June of last year; and at that time our drawing was made. It subsequently pro- duced fruit about the size of a pigeon's egg, of a dull purple colour, and with a smooth shining skin. Some doubt having been entertained upon the accuracy of Mr. Tate's statement regarding the origin of this species, we think it right to say, that we have examined the plant which is said to have been imported from Mexico, and that we have no doubt whatever that it was really the produce of some foreign climate. We are also authorised to add, that Mr. Haworth, of whose description we have availed ourselves, and by whom the species was named, entirely participates in our opinion, and that he is now acquainted with Mexican individuals in two other collections.. It is, however, very remarkable, that about the same time that Mr. Tate's imported plant blossomed, our artist was summoned by Mr. Mackay to make a drawing of a seedling raised by Mr. Smith, Gardener to Lord Liverpool, at Combe Wood, which proved so similar to this as to give rise to the doubts above adverted to. We understand the flower of this seedling is rather larger, and its colour deeper red than that of the Mexican plant. It was first brought into bloom by John Brampton, Esq., of Stoke Newington, a gentleman who cultivates a small but very select collec- tion of stove and greenhouse plants. We learn from Mr. Tate, that the young shoots of his Mexican Cactus have a deep red margin, which is not the case with the mules above referred to. This is a most desirable species, excelling in brilliancy of colouring even the well-known C. speciosissimus ; its anthers and stigmata are said by Mr. Haworth to exhibit a beautiful, changeable, rosy, violet appearance. It requires exactly the same treatment as C. phyllanthoides, truncatus, and similar species. J. L. 1— M TY" (142 Warf P SA LA Ve: pm. 1 t 7 2 ^o abo ye AE C Zu CY N y Atag 109 Y eng Sur à i e e 1332 ACACIA* uncináta. Hook-leaved Acacia. POLYGAMIA MON(ECIA. Nat. ord. Lesumınos=. $ Mimosee. ACACIA. — Supra, vol. 2. fol. 98. Sect. 1. Foliis deformatis, nempe : foliolis sepids, presertim in planta den abortivis, petiolis dilatatis in Phyllodia mutatis. Dec. prodr. . 448. A. uncinata; stipulis minimis caducis, phyllodiis ovato-oblongis obliquis marginatis apice falcatis mucronatis ramisque pubescentibus, capitulis solitariis axillaribus phyllodiorum longitudine. à Rami pilosi, rubro-fusci, teretes. Stipulee minime, decidue. Phyllodia ovato-oblonga, obliqua, undulata, mucronata, utrinque acuminata, apice falcata, margine incrassata, undique pubescentia, costá unicd in medio. Capituli pisi magnitudine, flavescentes, pedunculati ; pedunculo filiformi pubescente phyllodiorum longitudine. : A neat greenhouse plant, native of New Holland. Our drawing was made in the Greenhouse of the Comte de Vandes in July 1828. _ It is very near A. armata, from which it chiefly differs in the absence of spiny stipules, and in the greater breadth of the leaf-like petioles. Branches hairy, reddish brown, taper. Stipules very small, deciduous... Phyllodia ovate-oblong, oblique, wavy, mucronate, acuminate at each end, falcate at the apex, thickened at the margin, downy on all sides, with a single rib in the middle. Heads the size of a pea, pale yellow, stalked. Peduncle filiform, downy, the length of the phyllodia. J. È. * See fol. 1317. 133 TR 1333 PODOLÓBIUM:* trilobátum. Three-lobed Podolobium. DECANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. LecuM1Nosx. $ Sophoree. : PODOLOBIUM R. Br.—Calyx 5-fidus, bilabiatus, labio superiore bifido, inferiore 3-partito. Corolle carina compressa longitudine alarum vexillum explanatum subequantium. Ovarium simplici serie 4-spermum ; stylus ascendens ; stigma simplex. Legumen pedicellatum, lineari-oblongum, modicé ventricosum, intús leeve. Suffrutices habitu Chorizematis, et forte cum hoc genere, Smithio preeunte, conjungenda.— Dec. prodr. 2. 103. P. trilobatum ; foliis oppositis spinoso-dentatis subtrilobis, basi transversá, lobis lateralibus terminali dentato multoties brevioribus, ovario sericeo.— Dec. l. c. Pultenza ilicifolia. Botanist’s repository, tab. 320. Chorizema trilobatum. Smith trans. Lin. Soc. 9. p. 253. : Podolobium trilobatum. Brown in hort. Kew. 3. p. 9. Sims bot. mag. t: 1177. A pretty greenhouse shrub, introduced so long since as the year 1791 by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, but not very common in collections. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Comte de Vandes at Bayswater, in June 1825, where the great beauty of its lively yellow and red flowers particularly excited our attention. It is increased chiefly by cuttings, which, however, do not strike very freely. The leaves of this, and some other Leguminous plants, ‚are opposite; a striking exception to the general fact, that in that order they are alternate; and a proof that what Botanists consider even the most fixed characters are occa- * From ex; wodis, a foot, and Aoßs, a bean-pod; in allusion to the stalked legumes of the genus. sionally liable to deviation ; so imperfect are the means we at present possess of distinguishing, by external indications, the constitutional peculiarities of vegetation. Another species is represented at fol. 959 of this work, but it is far inferior in beauty to the present. J. L, TH rh, 1 TM m AH AM MI N Ba \ \ \ DAS ie Y 1334 JUSTÍCIA* guttáta. Dotted-flowered Justicia. DIANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. ACANTHACER. JUSTICIA. — Supra, vol. 4. fol. 309. J. guttata; caule subsimplici erecto, foliis oblongis utrinque attenuato- acutis subcrenulatis brevé petiolatis levibus, racemo terminali, floribus fasciculatis, dentibus calycinis bracteisque linearibus, labio corolle supe- riore recto bilobo lateribus reflexo, laciniis labii inferioris ovatis obtusis patentibus, antheris nudis carnosis erectis demüm divaricatis : loculis anticis parallelis gracilibus. — Wallich plante asiatice rariores, vol. 1. p. 24. tab. 28. Our drawing of this curious plant was made at the Garden of the Horticultural Society, to which establishment it had been presented by the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company. It is a tender stove perennial, flowering in August, and increasing freely by cuttings. The only work in which it has before been described is Dr. Wallich’s splendid publication upon a select number of East Indian plants, now appearing in quarterly Parts, under the munificent patronage of the East India Company. From this we learn that our species is a native of the Pundua mountains, on the eastern frontier of Bengal, where it flowers in the early part of the year. The marking of the corolla with deep blood-red spots upon a greenish ground is exceedingly pretty: when closely examined, it will be found to arise from the presence of a deep crimson colouring matter filling here and there the * See fol. 1227. cavities of the cellular tissue of the parenchyma, and not existing in that part which forms the ground colour. When will natural philosophy tell us why contiguous spaces on a plane surface, the function and anatomical structure of which is uniform, vary thus in the matter they secrete ? Jom SAS 1335 BRUNSVÍGIA* erandiflóra. Large-flowered Brunsvigia. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDEA. BRUNSVIGIA.—Supra, vol. 3. fol. 192. B. grandiflora ; foliis ligulatis erectis obtusis, umbellá patente trigintiflorà, perianthiis patentibus : laciniis subequalibus vix obliquis. Bulbus ovalis, collo nullo. Folia ligulata, pallidé viridia, falcata, plana, erecta, margine scabriuscula. Scapus ascendens, compressus, leviter glaucus, 1À-pedalis. Umbella patens, trigintiflora ; spathà bifoliá: foliolis ovatis, membranaceis, pallide brunneis, acuminatis. Pedunculi teretes. Perianthium sexfidum, subequaliter patens, laciniis carneis, lineari-oblongis, undulatis, obtusiusculis, subrecurvis ; interioribus latioribus. Stamina fauce inserta, declinata, perianthio paulo breviora ; filamenta subulata. Ovarium viride, teretiusculum, ovale, triloculare ; ovulis numerosis carnosis, distichis. Stylus filiformis, declinatus. Stigma parvum, obscure trilobum, papillosum. This noble addition to the genus Brunsvigia was sent us, in August 1829, by Mr. Tate, of Sloane Street, to whom we have on former occasions had to express our obligations for favours of the same description. It is no doubt a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and requires the same treatment as other Brunsvigias. Mr. Herbert, to whom the drawing has been shewn, considers it new, approaching B. striata in flower, though larger, but differing entirely in bulb and foliage, and in those respects coming near B. Josephine. B. striata has recumbent leaves, and a bulb like a turkey's egg, with the coat hard and shining as porcelain, of the colour of a yellow bay horse ; all characters at variance with those of the species now described. * See fol. 1153. VOL. XVI. F Bulb oval, with no neck. Leaves ligulate, pale green, falcate, flat, erect, roughish at the edge. Scape ascending, compressed, somewhat glaucous, a foot and a half high. Umbel spreading, with about 30 flowers. Spathe 2-leaved ; leaflets membranous, pale brown, acuminate. Peduncles taper. Perianthium 6-parted, nearly equally spreading, segments flesh-coloured, linear-oblong, wavy, bluntish, somewhat recurved ; the inner the broadest. Stamens in- serted into the throat, declinate, rather shorter than the perianth ; filaments subulate. | Ovarium green, taper, oval, 3-celled, with numerous fleshy, distichous ovules. Style filiform, declinate; stigma small, obscurely 3-lobed, papil- lose. 45 : Pf} ty VAR OA Se ALGU TUS / ihre + ¿AO SN /H 5 . V4 / p. =D ect T AUG e LOIL o e 1336 KENNÉDY 4* monophylla ; var. longiracemósa. Long-racemed variety of the One-leaved Kennedya. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LeouMINOSA. KENNEDYA. — Supra, vol. 11. fol. 944. K. monophylla; foliolis in apice petioli solitariis glabris reticulatis sub- cordatis, stipulis lanceolatis erectis, racemis multifloris petiolo multó longioribus. Dec. prodr. 2. 384. Glycine bimaculata. Bot. mag. 263. Kennedya monophylla. Vent. malm. 1. 106, &c. Var. longiracemosa ; racemis gracilibus foliis longioribus v. subeequalibus, floribus minoribus. For this distinct variety of Kennedya monophylla we are indebted to Mr. Rollisson, of Tooting, by whom it was raised from New Holland seeds. We call it variety, because it is so extremely similar in foliage and general appearance to its prototype, that we cannot believe it to be a distinct Species; but at the same time it must be admitted, that the great length of the racemes, and the colour of the flowers, give it an aspect peculiar to itself. It is a greenhouse plant, of much beauty, propagated readily by cuttings. Mr. Ridgway observed, that it secreted a great deal of honey while in his possession. Flowers in March and April. J. L. * The late Mr. Kennedy, a partner in the celebrated Nursery of Lee and ennedy, was the gentleman in compliment to whom this genus was named by a French Botanist, at a time when a strict correspondence was maintained between his firm and the amiable and unfortunate Empress Josephine upon Horticultural subjects, while France and England were plunged in a furious and fatal war. Such is the gentle influence of science, which flourishes regardless of foreign convulsions or intestine strife, appearing the more beautiful when surrounded by, and subduing, the fiercer feelings of society. 2/77 ; yf í Te x ESAS Lf, p. es 7 , ^- HI WI, OY Cte ar Stitt / JEJ 1337 PÓTHOS* scandent. Climbing Pothos. TETRANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. AROIDER. i POTHOS. — Spadix undique floribus hermaphroditis tecta. Calyx nullus v. tetrasepalus. Stamina definita. Ovarium uniloculare, 1-3-sper- mum; ovulis ascendentibus v. appensis. Bacca 1-locularis, oligosperma. —— Herbae v. arbusculee nunc scandentes. P. scandens ; epiphyta, radicans, petiolis alatis foliorum longitudine, foliis ovato-lanceolatis, spathis axillaribus, spadice subgloboso. Ana-Parua. Rheede Hort. malab. 7. 75. t. 40. Appendix duplo folio. Rumph. amboin. 5. 490. t. 184. f. 2. Pothos scandens. Linn. sp. pl. 1347, &c. dec. &c. A native of various parts of the East Indies, particu- larly Ceylon, and the islands of the Eastern Archipelago : it is not unfrequently seen upon the drawings of the Chinese, when it is usually represented in fruit, with its clusters of deep scarlet berries. It is particularly distinguished by its foliaceous petioles; but it is not improbable that more species than one has this character ; and if so, that now represented, in which the petioles are remarkably short, may be different from the genuine Cingalese species, in which the petioles are as long as the leaves, or nearly so, and the spadixes larger. The plant from which our drawing was made was imported from China by Mr. Tate, in whose Nursery 1t was taken in April last. The flowers are most deliciously fragrant. . * Potha being the Cingalese name of the species now described, it has *en applied to the whole genus. The following is the description in the Flora Indica, 1. 450. of the Indian plant : — ** Stems as thick as a slender ratan, often ramous, rooting upon trees in the most shady forests, round, smooth, and less succulent than any other species which I have yet met with, except P. gracilis. Leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolate, entire, smooth ; length from two to four inches, breadth about an inch. Petioles most amply winged, so as to be nearly as broad as the leaves themselves, almost as long, equally entire, smooth, and marked with similar veins. Peduncles axillary, solitary, clothed with many small, ovate, bractiform scales, up to the spathe, where they are completely recurved. Spathe boat-shaped, erect. Spadix globular, reflex. Calyx or coral some roundish scales mixed amongst the germs, and of nearly the same length, the exact number to each germ not ascertained. Stamina about four obovate scales to each germ, with two polliniferous pits on the inside, under the retuse apex. Germs many, oblong, 1-celled, with one, two, or three ovula attached to the bottom of the cell, and immersed in a clear gelatinous liquid. Style none. Stigma an umbili- cated elevation on the apex of each germ. Berries oblong, size of a French bean, red, pulpy, 1-seeded. Seed solitary, or two conform to the berry." Ld ————— (338 | Well. te SEE. I C2’, 4 FR‘ E ny: SA JS pak ds d £ Aig if 169 Lip Jut, TEES. 1333 TILLÀNDSLA* stricta. Erect 'Tillandsia. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. BROMELIACER. TILLANDSIA.—Suprà, vol. 2. fol. 105. T. stricta ; foliis canaliculato-subulatis pruinoso-canescentibus, spicà multi- florá terminali. Spreng. syst. 2. 24. T. stricta. Bot. mag. 1529. Folia recurva, pruinoso-lepidota, lanceolata, acuminata, convoluta, scapo longiora. Scapus strictus, minús lepidotus. Flores amené et intense cerulei, bracteis magnis, ventricosis, oblongis, acutis; inferioribus cuspidatis. Petala apice ovata, acuta, patentia, bracteis equalia. — Native of Buenos Ayres and Brazil ; from the former of which countries it was received by Peter Kendall, Esq., a zealous cultivator of curious hothouse plants, who presented it to the Horticultural Society. Our drawing was made in the Chiswick Garden in March last. This is among the most beautiful of its tribe, and one that is very easily cultivated. Mr. Kendall finds it succeed remarkably well with the following treatment. In June he takes it out of the stove, and suspends it from a wall in the open air, where he leaves it without water, attention, or protection, till the succeeding October; thus creating a sort of artificial winter. When the time for placing 1t again in the stove arrives, it is found withered, discoloured, and in appearance half dead: as soon, however, as it 1s again submitted to heat and moisture, it recovers rapidly, .Commences a new and vigorous growth, and in the course of a few weeks loses all trace of its previous sufferings, A LOL t m * Suprä, vol. 14. fol. 1157. assuming a rich healthy vegetation. After throwing out suckers from each side, it shoots up its spikes of bright blue flowers, which begin to open in March, and endure till the end of April: when the period for a cessation of growth draws near, its parts harden, its flowers fall away, and by June it is ready again to undergo the same treat- ment as before. It is no doubt desirable to create an artificial winter or cold season for all tropical plants, if it be possible; but this is generally impracticable; and, although Mr. Kendall's management succeeds with this, and two or three similar plants from the same part of the southern hemisphere, it by no means follows that it can be applied generally; on the contrary, we know from experience that Brazilian and net Indian epiphytes of the Orchis tribe are destroyed y it. Leaves recurved, covered with a kind of frost-like scale, lanceolate, acuminate, convolute, longer than the scape. Scape erect, less scaly. Flowers bright deep blue, with large, ventricose, oblong, acute bracteze, of which the lower- most are cuspidate. Petals ovate, acute, and spreading at the end, as long as the bractez. LL 1339 PASSIFLORA* liguláris. Strapped Passion- flower. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PassiFLOREZ. PASSIFLORA. — Supra, vol. 1. fol. 13. Sect. 6. Granadilla. Dec. mem. soc. gen. 1. part 2. p. 435. Prodr. 3.327.—Anthactinia. Bory de St. Vincent ann. gen. 2. 138. y ‘ Involucrum sub flore triphyllum, foliolis integris dentatisve non laciniatis. Calyx 10-lobus. Pedicelli uniflori et cirrhi simplices ex iisdem axillis. Dec. * Foliis integris. do m P. ligularis ; involucro sub flore triphyllo ; foliolis ovatis serratis, foliis glabris cordatis integerrimis, petiolis glandulas subsex filiformi-clavatas gerenti- bus, stipulis ovato-acuminatis, pedunculis solitariis unifloris. Hooker in bot. mag. 2967. P.ligularis. Juss. ann. mus. 6. t. 40. Humb. Bonpl. et Kunth nov. gen. et sp. 2.128. Kunth synopsis 2. 433. Decand. prodr. 3. 328. . This fine species belongs to a tribe of Passion-flowers, known in America by the name of Granadillas, which they acquired from the Spaniards in consequence of the resemblance borne by their fruit to the Grenade or Pomegranate. The three that are most commonly culti- vated for the sake of this fruit, which is a kind of melon filled with numerous seeds, immersed in a quantity of pleasant subacid pulp, are P. quadrangularis, edulis, and alata; Passif. laurifolia and maliformis are also sometimes grown, but they are less esteemed. This kind is nearly related to the two first, from which it is known both by the absence of angles or wings from its stem, and by the * The ingenuity of some of the old Botanists discovered in these beautiful flowers an emblem of the passion of our Saviour ; the filamentous pro- i were the crown of thorns dripping with blood, and the stamens were the cross, long, thread-like processes proceeding from the petiole ; processes that occupy the place of the petiolar glands so common in the genus, and analogous to the ciliz found upon the leaf-stalk of some Apocyneous plants. The fruit of P. ligularis is said to be eatable, and the size of an orange; that of P. quadrangularis is frequently three times as large. Hitherto this has been described as a native of Peru: it would, however, seem from the Garden name, P. mexi- cana, under which it was purchased from Mr. Knight, of the King's Road, by Mr. Gordon, of Haffield, near Ledbury, to be perhaps spread northwards over a large extent of country. The specimens from which the accompanying drawing was taken were obligingly communicated in February by Mr. Gordon, who informs us that the plant grows luxuriantly in the front border of a Conservatory for tropical plants heated by hot water. A leaf of this species is represented by M. Decandolle in his Organographie, t. 39. f. 5. to illustrate a transforma- tion of glands into tendrils. Jade — MÀ 1340 JUSTÍCLA* quadranguláris. Square-stalked Justicia. DIANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. ACANTHACER. JUSTICIA. — Supra, vol. 4. fol. 309. J. quadrangularis ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis petiolatis subdentatis acuminatis, spicá multiflora, bracteis subulatis, corolle fauce ventricosá, antherarum loculis parallelis. J. quadrangularis. Hooker bot. mag. 1340. J. asperula. Wallich MSS. i = Planta 2-pedalis, erecta, caule spithameo, ramis rigidiusculis, gracilibus, erectis, supra insertionem foliorum valdé nodoso-ventricosis, angulis 4 tener- rimis, pubescentiá asperulá. Folia internodia equantia, ovalia, acuminata, deorsüm attenuata, marginibus minutids repando-subcrenatis, medio con- veris, 4-pollicaria, atroviridia, suprà nitida, levia, subtis costá puberulá nervisque reticulatis scabriuscula. Petioli fer? pollicares. Racemi ter- minales, erecti, 6-pollicares, et ultra, subtetragoni, strict, pubescentes. Rachis crassiuscula, tetragona. Fasciculi florum mediocrium decussatt, subsessiles. Flores ternati. Bractex subulato-lanceolate, acuminatissime, calycum apices attingentes, opposite; inferioribus subfoliaceis. Pedicelli brevissimi, crussiusculi. Lacinie calycis lineari-subulate, tubum corolle ex albo dilutissimà carnec leviter compressum equantes. Faux cernua, ampla, ventricosa, labio superiore bilobo, inferiore 3-lobo, lobis lanceolatis, acutiusculis. Labium inferius majus, valdé deorsúm prominens, supra con- cavum excavatum et directione lacinie intermedie luteo-punctate. Corolla extis puberula. Anthere purpurascentes, majuscule, dorso puberule sub galeá.— Wallich MSS. A native of Sylhet, whence it was introduced into the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, in August 1822. With us it forms a small bush in the stove, flowering in October. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society in 1829. * Named after a Mr. James Justice, a person who was known as a Horticultural amateur at the end of the seventeenth century. Dr. Hooker, in publishing it in the Botanical Magazine, changed the name of asperula, which he was not aware was one of Dr. Wallich's, into quadrangularis, because he could discover no asperity to justify the former appellative. We follow him in his alteration, as the minute asperity which is visible in dried specimens is such as to be hardly appreciable. A tender stove plant, easily managed in a damp, hot atmosphere, and readily propagated by cuttings. Jn y Piccadilly Taly). 1630 ht ee ————— n! — 1341 PHYCELLA* Herbertiána. Mr. Herbert's Phycella. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDER. PHYCELLA Lindl. Supra, vol. 11. fol. 928.—Perianthium sub- ringens, convoluto-clausum, 6-partitum : tubo brevissimo. Stamina. 6, declinata, fauce tubi inserta; alternis brevioribus; nunc basi appendiculata, nunc intra annulum fimbriatum inserta, nunc appendicibus annuloque destituta, Stylus declinatus; stigma simplex, incrassatum. Capsula tri- locularis, polysperma, seminibus atris planis membranaceis. Plantæ bulbose Americe australis temperate, floribus rubris purpureisve, integu- mentis bulborum atris. P. Herbertiana ; foliis linearibus recurvis, umbellà triflorá, perianthio arcuato: laciniis acutis, staminibus basi inappendiculatis intra annulum faucis fimbriatum insertis. Bulbus integumentis exterioribus atris, collo longissimo subterraneo (in spontaneo 41 uncias longo). Folia linearia, recurva, scapo erecto, teret multo breviora, Umbella triflora, bracteis spathaceis binis pedunculorum longitudine. Perianthium rubro-purpureum, subarcuatum, fere duas uncias longum, laciniis acutis, ringentibus. Stamina declinata, alterna breviora, si tubi intra annulum fimbriatum inserta, appendicibus nullis. Stylus declinatus, filiformis; stigma simplex, incrassatum. A native of Cumbre, a pass in the Andes between Valparaiso and Santiago, where it was found by Mr. M‘Rae, in November 1825, flowering in company with many other curious and beautiful plants; It appears, from his speci- mens, to have vegetated in a deep black soil, and to have one its bulbs buried at least four or five inches below the surface, * The origin of this word is gõxes, a purple pigment, and refers to the Prevailing colour of the flowers of the genus. The species is named in compliment to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, whose acquaintance with the beautiful tribe to which this belongs is unequalled. Brought to the Garden of the Horticultural Society, it flowered in the Greenhouse in May 1827, at which time our drawing was made. Having lately had some correspondence with Mr. Herbert upon the subject of the characters assigned to this genus at fol. 928, and further adverted to at fol. 1016, p. 2, we have been led to reconsider the structure of those processes which are there called sterile stamens, and upon which the genus was chiefly founded. Mr. Herbert, to whom we are extremely obliged for his remarks, observes, that “ in describing Phycella ignea v. glauca in the Botanical Magazine, fol. 2687, he stated his opinion that these bodies were not sterile stamens, but only mem- branous processes; and that, considering them of less im- portance than we attached to them, he adverted to them in the specific, and not in the generic character, in the persuasion that species would hereafter be found without them." The original species, Amaryllis ignea, upon which the genus was founded, had, as is stated at fol. 928, two subulate processes, proceeding from the base of the three calycine stamens: they were one-third the length of the filaments to which they were attached, and having the position which would be that of additional stamens, sup- posing such to be present, they were described as being so, but sterile. But the glaucous variety does not possess the same structure, having mere irregular membranous pro- cesses, instead of the subulate bodies of its original. Now, as these two plants are not easily distinguished even as varieties, it is clear that Mr. Herbert was right in esti- mating of little value, with a view to generic distinction, the peculiarity upon which the genus was originally founded. The justness of this decision, to which we were at one time unwilling to assent, is confirmed by the species now described, in which the stamens have no appendages at their base, but are inserted within a fringed annular border; by a second sent from Mendoza by Dr. Gillies, ın which this border is broken up into three faucial scales ; and, lastly, by a third, collected in Chile by Mr. M‘Rae, in which there appears to be neither appendages nor border. The character of the genus Phycella will therefore depend upon the convolutely-imbricated perianthium, the declinate style, and the simple thickened stigma; and not upon the am amem, tM E — — presence or absence of the processes. But while we assent thus fully to the justness of Mr. Herbert's criticism in regard to the value of these processes as a generic distinc- tion, we do not admit the accuracy of his view of their nature. That they are really indications, more or less complete, of a tendency to develope additional stamens, may perhaps be made apparent by a consideration of the structure of other Amaryllideous genera. This order may be said to have normally the same number of stamens as segments of the perianthium, that is to say, two complete whorls; but at the same time to indicate a strong tendency to the production of another set of stamens between the ehe a and those stamens which actually develope. his is apparent in the cup of Narcissus, in the faucial appendages of Amaryllis calyptrata, and the like, in r. Miers’ genus Placea, in which six petaloid filaments are superadded to the antheriferous ones, and especially in the genus Gethyllis, in which additional whorls of Stamens are constantly completed, so that some of the species are actually polyandrous. It is no argument against the processes of Amaryllidee, whether a cup, or scales, or subulate bodies, or mere glandular projections, being sterile stamens, to say that they do not bear anthers, or to insist upon their variable size and form. These are considerations which can have no weight when contrasted with their uniformity of station, their insensible passage from the most rudimentary state to one of high development; and finally, with those monstrous Galanthuses, which in forming su rnumerary parts between the petals and sta- mens, continually produce a half perfect anther upon their additional floral envelopes. The genus Sphserotele of Presl, to which that author thinks Amaryllis ignea and cyrtanthoides referable, is clearly not the same as Phycella, as might be thence inferred ; but is nearer Chrysiphiala, from which it differs, according to the figure and description, in its stigma, and In the want of a cup. Bulb covered with a deep brown skin, and having a very long subterraneous neck. Leaves linear, recurved, much shorter than the erect, taper scape. Umbel 3-flowered, With two spathaceous bractez the length of the peduncles. Perianthium reddish purple, somewhat curved, about two inches long; the segments acute and ringent. Stamens declinate, alternately shorter, inserted at the base of the tube within a fringed ring, without appendages at the base. Style declinate, filiform ; stigma simple, thickened. J. L. 1342 SEN ÉCIO* lilacínus. Lilac Senecio. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLU A. Nat. ord. Comrosirx. Trib. Senecionee- Archetype Cassini. SENECIO.— Suprà, vol. 1. fol. 41. P d S. lilacinus; glaberrimus, caule suffruticoso erecto, foliis semiamplexi- caulibus subdecurrentibus ovato-lanceolatis acutis basi grosse ineequaliter acuté dentatis, capitulis corymboso-paniculatis, radio maximo (lilacino). Caulis erectus, glaberrimus, suffruticosus, striatus. Folia sessilia, semi- amplexicaulia, ovato-lanceolata, sub-decurrentia, : basisinequaliter acute dentata, apice acuta integra ; inferioribus magis dentatis. Capituli co- rymboso-paniculati, pedunculis hic illie bracteolatis. Involucrum conicum, simplici serie polyphyllum, basi multibracteolatum, foliolis rigidis, costatis, apice sphacelatis, margine membranaceis. Receptaculum planum, favosum. Flosculi radii Seminei, tubo basi clavato, ligule —— apice denticu- late dimidid longitudine. Stylus basi clavatus, tubo inclusus ; stigmata exserta, linearia, glabra, apice obtusa, epapillosa ; ovarium subcylindricum, teres, pubescens ; pappo capillaceo, scabro. Flosculi disci hermaphroditi, tubulosi, apice 5-dentati, basi clavati. Anthere basi mutice, apice ap- pendiculá ovatá instructe ; filamento brevissimo, ovato. Ovarium teres, pubescens ; pappus ut in flosculis radi. Stylus basi incrassatus. Stig- mata linearia, intüs sulcata, apice truncata, papillosa. Communicated from the Garden of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland at Syon, by Mr. Forrest, in May last. A most lovely shrubby plant, cultivated easily in the Con- „ervatory, striking freely from cuttings, and well adapted for the flower-garden in the summer. Probably a native of the Cape of Good Hope; but upon this we have no certain information. —- It is here published under the name by which it was en . * The Senecio of Pliny was so called because its leaves have gray down, like old men's hair—from senez, an old man. VOL. XVI. G sent us by Mr. Forrest, appearing to have been hitherto undescribed. Its nearest affinity will probably be found with S. lanceus of the Hortus Kewensis, which would appear to be distinct from the plant of the same name figured in the Hortus Schönbrunnensis, which Willdenow called oporinus; the latter with pale-yellow flowers, and the tips of the serratures of the leaves callous; the former having the leaves finely and regularly serrated. We presume this forms part of M. Cassini's genus Jacobea ; and it certainly has little in its appearance to justify its union with Common Groundsel, in the same genus. Stem erect, quite smooth, suffruticose, striated. Leaves sessile, half amplexicaul, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat de- current, at the base unequally and acutely toothed, at the apex acute and entire; the lowermost more toothed than the rest. Heads in corymbose panicles; the peduncles with little bractee here and there. Involucrum conical, many-leaved, in a simple row, with many little bractec at the base; /eaflets rigid, ribbed, sphacelate at the apex, membranous at the margin. Receptacle flat, honey-combed. Florets of the ray female; the tube clavate at the base, about half as long as the plane, spreading, toothed ligula. Style clavate at the base, included in the tube; stigmas exserted, linear, smooth, obtuse at the end, without pa- pille; ovarium somewhat cylindrical, taper, pubescent; pappus capillary, scabrous. Florets of the disk hermaphro- dite, tubular, 5-toothed at the apex, clavate at the base. Anthers spurless at the base, with an ovate appendage at the apex; filaments very short, ovate. Ovarium taper, pubescent; pappus as in the florets of the ray ; style thick- ened at the base; stigmas linear, channelled inside, truncate at the apex, with papille. IL — (o y. ff 7 (D o JE. , 20 A DU by J " qp t US Hg orent pr Aug |. Ao "e » >” - 1343 ARGEMÓNE* mexicána ; var. ochroleuca. Mexican Argemone ; the pale-yellow variety. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PAPAVERAGEE. ARGEMONE.—Supra, vol. 15. fol. 1264. A. mexicana ; annua; foliis spinoso-dentatis maculatis, capsulis calycibusque spinosis. A. mexicana. Linn. sp. pl. and of all others. B. albiflora ; white variety. Bot. mag. t. 2342. y. ochroleuca ; pale-yellow variety. A, ochroleuca. Hort. angl. The Argemone mexicana, a weed in Mexico, whence it has spread to various tropical countries, is a very old inha- bitant of our Gardens as a tender annual. Some years since, a variety with white flowers was obtained and figured in the Botanical Magazine; and subsequently the kihd now represented was procured by Mr. Barclay. It is an annual, like its original, but not so handsome: it is, however, more valued, on account of its greater rarity. We may here remark, that Argemone grandiflora is called by mistake an annual at fol. 1264: it ıs a durable and very beautiful perennial. Lh e EEEO ER * See fol. 1264. EF +r . -3 J Wut du 1344 CRASSULA* turríta. Turretted Crassula. PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. CRAssULACEX. CRASSULA Linn.— Calyx 5-partitus corollá multó brevior, sepalis planiusculis. Petala 5, stellatim patentia, libera. Stamina 5, filamentis subulatis. Squame 5, ovate, breves. Carpella 5, polysperma.— —Frutices aut herbe, sepissime Capenses. Folia opposita, integerrima aut subcrenata. Flores albi, aut rariüs rosei.—Dec. prodr. 3. 383. $8. Turgosex; herbacee subnude, foliis plerisque radicalibus, in- Horescentiá spicato-thyrsoided, floribus nempé verticillato-subsessilibus. peces omnes verosimiliter biennes. | Dec. l. c. Loud + turrita; foliis radicalibus oppositis connatis quadrifariàm imbricatis Ter: cus acutis villosis ciliatis, caule subnudo, floribus verticillatis. ec. b. c. MA ie, Thunb. prodr. 55. Jacq. hort. schónbr. 1. t. 52. Haworth suppl. 17. Turgosea turrita. Haworth revision 16. RE eee This remarkable succulent plant is a native of the Karro, at the Cape of Good Hope, where it was originally found by Thunberg. It is still rare in our collections, although It was described eleven years since by Mr. Haworth from € Kew Garden. For our drawing we are indebted to C. Law, Esq., of , N elson Terrace, Stoke N ewington Road, by whom a Specimen was communicated in May last, from his very rich collection of succulent plants. We regret to learn, that Mr, Law is induced by ill health to wish to discon- tinue the cultivation of this curious tribe, and to desire to SiGe AL Up * From crassus, thick ; in allusion to its succulent habit. dispose of his collection, which is one of the most interesting in the neighbourhood of London. Usually considered a biennial; but the plant from which the accompanying drawing was taken had been in Mr. Law's possession for four years. Increased by seeds, which it ripens unwillingly, and also by offsets. To Mr. Haworth’s very careful description in the work above cited, we find nothing to add, farther than that the sepals are so completely similar both in form and texture and anatomical structure to the leaves, that no distinction whatever appears to exist between them. J. E. X Mn Hebert. del, Jd bey Ph Suaguray [CG Hiccadil Aug. 7. MJ. HABRÄNTHUS* Andersóni. Anderson's Habranthus. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDER. HABRANTHUS Herbert.— Germen medio constrictum ; tubus sequalis. Filamenta declinata, fasciculata, recurvata, quaternä longitudine. Stylus declinatus, recurvatus. Semina cumulata, complanata nigra. — Flos sub sole patentior.—Herbert MSS. H. Andersoni ; bulbo parvo obovato, foliis angustis 5-6-uncialibus, scapo unifloro subrubescente 3-4-unciali, spathá unciali apice diviso, pedunculo 14-unciali, germine subrubescente, corollä 13-unciali aureä v. cupreá, strus externis et fundo subfusco-rubescente, tubo 4-unciali membraná Intàs clauso, laciniis externis imbricantibus, filamentis internis longiori- us: summo brevissimo stylo longiore.— Herbert MSS. Var. a; aurea, ar. B; cuprea. ar. y. obscura; alabastrum extus aterrimum. Var. 2. brevilimba ; foliis latioribus. I ihi bright-coloured Habranthus was sent to Mr. Mackay by his collector, Mr. Anderson, with some other species, from Monte ideo, in the spring of 1829. The bulbs flowered abundantly in the greenhouse of Mr. Mackay, at Upper Clapton, in April and May 30; but the flowers do not expand well unless the sun shines bright. and warm. They are either golden or copper coloured, with Townish red streaks on the outside, and forming within a dark eye to the flower. The specimens of the golden variety, which seems to be the most plentiful, vary a little in the breadth and colour of the leaves, The u pper filament is the shortest of the three shorter, and the lowest is a little the shortest of the three longer filaments. the weather is cold and gloomy, the flowers do not expand, and me filaments do not acquire their proper posture and proportions ; and in that imperfect state it would be very difficult to decide Whether the flower belonged to Habranthus, or the nearly allied a RER * So named from &ßeös, delicate, and a»%s, a flower. genus Zephyranthes; but in a suitable temperature it conforms exactly with the other species of Habranthi. Habranthus has the filaments of four lengths, fasciculate and recurved; Zephyranthes of two lengths, distant and conniving. Closely as the two genera are allied, we have as yet failed in all attempts to raise a hybrid between them. H. Andersoni produces seed freely here.” . For the drawing and foregoing account of this plant we are indebted to the Hon. and Rev. William Herbert, by whom they were communicated last May. Since the plate was printed off, we have been favoured with another communication from the same gentleman, relating to the* form of the seed-vessel ; unfortunately, the drawing that accompanied it arrived too late to be introduced into the plate, which we regret the more, because Mr. Herbert is of opinion, that a difference in the form of the capsule goes along with the other generic distinctions of Zephyranthes and Habranthus. “ All the capsules," he remarks, “of Zephyranthes that I have observed are like those of Z. rosea, represented in the Botanical Magazine as broad or broader at bottom than at top. As far as my observation goes, those of Ha- branthus are turbinate or narrower at bottom. I have now before me the capsules of several varieties of H. Andersoni, and of a variety of Habranthus versicolor, from the same quarter, still more turbinate: the capsules of three new species of Zephyranthes from the same quarter, are all broad at bottom. I propose to call them Zephyranthes flavescens. Flower at first straw-coloured, fading to white as it ezpands. Spathe half as long again as the peduncle, which 1s about an inch long. Zephyranthes mesochloa. Flower green at bottom, yellowish white, tinged a little without with red. Peduncle nearly twice as long as the spathe. Zephyranthes acuminata. Nearly white. Petals 24 inches long, but only äths wide. Peduncle and spathe of the same length.” We have only to remark, that the genus Habranthus has been proposed by Mr. Herbert to comprehend various South American bulbs, including Amaryllis advena and intermedia, figured at folios 849 and 1148 of this work ; and that it stands upon the authority of that excellent observer rather than upon our own. Reference to the Figure. . Golden variety. . Copper variety. Ovarium, tube, and sexual apparatus. . An outer segment of the corolla of var. «. OR &? JL. ZEA M y taz et gu L tig AS hr (EL Y eL A / 4 A D Tu 2 7. 4 vL M. IU. 1346 DRIMIA* villósa. Villous-leaved Drimia. HEXANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. AsPHODELER. 3 DRIMIA Jacq.— Perianthium 6-fidum, campanulatum, limbo reflexo : laciniis apice cucullatis. Stamina filamentis basi dilatatis, laciniarum basi inserta. Stylus cum ovario continuus; sfigma triquetrum, incrassatum. Capsula 3-locularis, loculis dorso dehiscentibus, semibivalvibus. Semina angulo centrali loculamentorum affixa. D. villosa ; foliis oblongis undulatis glaucis villosis serotinis, racemo multi- floro cylindraceo, perianthii limbo obliquo. Folia erecta, oblongo-lanceolata, undulata, pilosa, serotina, glauca. Racemus nudus, erectus, multiflorus. Bracteole breves, minima, ovate, pedicellis mult) breviores. Perianthium sexfidum, tubo campanulato, car- noso, limbo obliquo: lacinüs 6, linearibus, non imbricantibus, undulatis, apice cucullatis, demüm revolutis. Stamina 6, basibus laciniarum inserta, leviter declinata ob obliquitatem limbi; filamentis subulatis, bast dilatatis, in conum conniventibus. O varila superum, intrà tubum perianthii inclusum, triloculare, loculis serie duplici polyspermis ; stylus ovario continuus de- clinatus ; stigma incrassatum, triquetrum. A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence it was received by Mr. Tate, in whose Nursery our drawing was made in May 1826. À greenhouse bulbous plant, flowering before the leaves. It differs from Drimia ciliaris, to which it most nearly approaches, in the much greater breadth of its leaves, Which are strongly undulated, and far more villous, an in a greater obliquity of the limb of the perianthium. Those who may hereafter study the genus Drimia will do well to attend to the structure of the capsule, to the N ROA Pt * From demic, acrid; in allusion to the flavour of the leaves. style being intruse, or continuous with the ovarium, to the obliquity of the limb, and to the number of the seeds; all points very little considered hitherto. Leaves erect, oblong-lanceolate, undulated, hairy, ap- pearing later than the leaves, glaucous. Raceme naked, erect, many-flowered. Bracteole short, very small, ovate, much shorter than the pedicels. Perianth 6-cleft, with a campanulate fleshy tube, and an oblique limb; the seg- ments of which are 6, linear, not imbricating, undulated, cucullate at the apex, finally rolling back. Stamens 6, inserted into the base of the segments, slightly declinate on account of the obliquity of the limb; Jilaments subulate, dilated at the base, conniving into a cone. Ovarium su- perior, included within the tube of the perianth, 3-celled ; cells many-seeded, in a double row ; style continuous with the ovarium, declinate ; stigma thickened, 3-cornered. Js b. IND 1347 COLLÓMIA* heterophylla. Various-leaved Collomia. PENTANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. POLEMONIACELE. COLLOMIA. — Supra, vol. 14. fol. 1166. C. heterophylla ; glanduloso-pubescens, foliis inferioribus pinnatifidis incisis, superioribus cuneatis pinnatifidis v. incisis, supremis (involucri) oblongis acutis integerrimis. C. heterophylla. Hooker bot. mag. 2895. Bo o WP Annua, prostrata, ramosissima, undique pilis glandulosis viscosis obsita. Folia infima. sublyrata, proxima pinnatifida laciniis oblongis incisis, supe- nora cuneata v. pinnatifida incisa, involucralia oblonga, acuta, integerrima, subverticillata. .. Flores congesti, subseni, involucro breviores. í Calyx in- f undibularis, «pentagonus, tubo membranaceo, limbo erecto : laciniis ovatis, acuminatis, foliaceis, sinubus leviter gibbosis. Corolla infundibularis, calyce dupl) longior et^mult angustior, tubo gracili pilosiusculo, limbo plano, roseo, 5-partito, laciniis oblongis, obtusis. Stamina 5, quorum tria fauce ‚nserta intermedio longiore, duo supra medium tubi subsessilia. Ovarium ovatum, 3-loculare, polyspermum. Stylus cum ovario continuus, filiformis ; stigmata tria, linearia, intüs papillosa. Ovarium oblongum, calyce ves- fitum, 3-loculare, loculicidò dehiscens, loculis trispermis, valvulis ab axi Placentiferá triangulari secedentibus. Semina oblonga, utrinque truncata, testá mucilaginosd ; embryo in axi albuminis carnosi. A little annual plant, beautiful when minutel examined, but not particularly attractive at first sight. Native of the north-west of North America, whence it was sent to the Horticultural Society by Mr. Douglas in 1826. When Once introduced into a Garden, it soon becomes A weed, Sowing itself in waste ground, or wherever the soil is suf- ered to rest undisturbed. It offers what seems to be an explanation of the nature of the supposed spiral vessels in URS ee ee RM * See fol. 1166. the testa of Coll. linearis. [ts testa is in like manner muci- laginous, and, if examined with a high magnifier, is seen to be covered with an entangled mass of hairs, held together : by the mucilage, and evidently analogous to the coma of some plants, but most particularly to those hairs that cover the surface of certain of the Convolvulus tribe, to which Polemoniacez have a strong affinity. Dr. Hooker is undoubtedly right in referring this to Collomia, rather than to Gilia, where Douglas wished to place it. J. L. | Fl Lg 4 / A bg "tuu May Vita / t OU ALAM TAS UE 1348 GEUM* chilense ; var. grandiflörum. Chilian Geum ; large-flowered variety. ICOSANDRIA POLYGY NIA. Nat. ord. RosacEzx. GEUM.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1088. G. chilense ; foliis caulinis tripartitis laciniatis radicalibus interrupte lyratis pilosis : lobo terminali rotundato subtrilobo crenato, floribus paniculatis; carpellis villosissimis. G. chilense. Balbis in Dec. prodr. 2. 551. : G. coccineum. Seringe in Dec. prodr. 2. 551. Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1088, non Flore Greece. ‘G. Quellyon. Hort. 8. grandiflorum ; floribus duplo majoribus, colore multà intensiore. When this species was published, at fol. 1088, we had had no means of ascertaining whether it was the same as the Greek plant G. coccineum, or distinct from it. At the same time we stated, that it was undoubtedly the Chilian species, undistinguishable from specimens collected in the vicinity of Coquimbo by Mr. M‘Rae. We have since had an opportunity, in consequence of the Herbarium connected with the Flora Greca having been confided to Our charge, of examining what remains of the original Specimen of G., coccineum; and we are now satisfied that It Is really distinct. In this specimen no flowers are eft, but the leaves have a very large terminal lobe, and minute lateral ones, so as to exhibit a different general appearance. PG QUU TUMOR. 20 * “ Geum radiculas tenues habet, nigras, bené olentes ; medetur m modo pectoris doloribus aut lateris, sed et cruditates discutit jucun d sapore." Plin. hist. 1. 26. c. 7. Hence, according to some, it 18 derive a Yi», to taste ; but then it cannot have been our Geum urbanum, as is Ought, for its taste is any thing rather than pleasant. The identity of the garden plant with that from Chile having been established, as well as its difference from the Grecian species, it has become necessary to adopt the name G. chilense of M. Balbis, under which it was com- municated to Decandolle by that Botanist. The original state of this species has become a common and universal favourite among cultivators, for the sake of the rich colour of the flowers, and the facility with which it is cultivated in any garden, and in any situation. In its native country we are informed by Mr. Cruikshanks that it grows exclusively by the sides of rivulets, and in situa- tions similar to those of Geum rivale and Comarum palustre in Europe. But if the plant in the common state is thus deserving of attention, how much more so is the variety now repre- sented, which excels it as much in the size of its flowers, and the brilliancy of its colouring, as G. montanum does G. urbanum. It was sent to the Horticultural Garden from the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, under the name of G. Quellyon,* and is certainly one of the most striking objects with which we are acquainted. It does not appear to require any particular care, growing as freely, and seeding as abundantly, as the first variety. ; E'L. * Caryophyllata foliis alatis, flore amplo coccineo, vulgò Quell gon.— . Truillée, p. 736. t. 27. E —— TEE SS O IP - ERI. 4 1349 RÍBES* sanguineum. Purple-flowered Currant. PENTANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. GRossuLACER. RIBES.—Supra, vol. 2. fol. 125. * Inermia. CURRANTS. R. sanguineum ; inerme, foliis cordatis subquinquelobis serratis venosis suprà - glabriusculis subtüs villoso-tomentosis, racemis laxis pubescentibus foliis dupló longioribus, calycibus tubulato-campanulatis : laciniis linearibus obtusis patentibus petala integerrima excedentibus, bracteis obovato- spatulatis, baccis turbinatis hirsutis.—Douglas in Transactions of the Hort. Soc. vol. 7. p. 509. t. 13. j iii R. sanguineum. Pursh fl. am. sept. 1. 164. Smith in Rees cycl. in I. Römer et Schultes syst. veg. 5. 497. A For many years it has been known to Botanists that the district of the Columbia river, on the north-west coast of America, abounds with Currants, remarkable for the great beauty of their flowers. Ong since, Ribes aureum was obtained through the United States, and proved, as is well known, fully worthy of the reputation it had acquired by report. The subject of the present plate has been recently introduced by the Horticultural Society, and certainly is inferior in beauty to no plant yet in cultivation. It is as hardy as the common Currant ofthe Gardens, and bears a vast: profusion of bunches of the most lovely purplish-red flowers, during the end of 2n and beginning of May, remaining it perfection full three s. " Increased readily b i auiri articular manage- y by cuttings, and requiring no parti t ment; the only mb that a to demand attention being that ìt should be planted in dry situations, but not in peat soil, as 1t 1s o orr go off in swampy places, and peatohas been found injurious a 49 BETIS NE * See fol. 12874 © VOL. XVI, H This species was sent by Mr. Douglas to the Horticultural Society; and of such importance do we consider it to the embel- lishment of our Gardens, that if the expense incurred by the Horti- cultural Society in Mr. Douglas's voyage had been attended with no other result than the introduction of this species, there would have been no ground for dissatisfaction. It is not the number of objects that a public body or an individual accomplishes, that creates a claim to public gratitude, so much as their utility ; and in this view the gentleman who brought the first live plant of the now common China Rose to England deserves his country's gratitude in a greater degree than all the collectors who sent plants to Kew for the next twenty years. But if we consider that it ıs not R. sanguineum alone that the Horticultural Society has introduced through the same active traveller, but that the gigantic Pines of North-west America, one of which yields timber superior to the finest larch ; Acer macrophyl- lum, the wood of which is as much better than our Sycamore as the T is superior in the beauty and amplitude of its foliage; Gaul- theria Shallon, an evergreen shrub of great merit; have all been secured to this country, and distributed in every direction,—to say nothing of the beautiful Lupines, Pentstemons, Berberries, CEno- theras, and other plants ofless moment,—when all this, we say, is considered, it is not too much to assert, that this result alone has justified all the expenditure of the Society's Garden from the com- mencement, ánd has stamped it with a character of great national utility, which nothing but future mismanagement can shake. The following is Mr. Douglas's own account of this plant : — . “ This forms an erect, branching bush, exceeding six feet in height, with red smooth branches, the younger twigs covered with short, brown, bristly hairs, which fall away along with the thin deciduous bark of the first year. The leaves are heart-shaped, more than two inches long, one and a half broad, dark green above, hoary and downy beneath, on footstalks of equal length with the leaves, which are more or less pubescent and glandular, having conspicuous ciliated or slightly fringed stipules. Flower-stalks about four inches long, lax, more pubescent than the leaves. Calyx half an inch long, the tube nearly bell-shaped, short in proportion to the spread- ing segments, pink or crimson. Petals obovate, one-third shorter than the limb, white, becoming of the same colour as the calyx after they have been some days expanded. Stamens of the same length as the petals. Anthers white. Style slightly cloven. Berry turbinate, three-eighths of an inch long, brownish black, hairy, having a tough, leathery, thick skin, with numerous small angular seeds, adhering together by a small portion of limpid viscid mucus, and completely destitute of the pulpy substance peculiar to most species of this tribe. ““ So long ago as the year 1787, my esteemed friend Archibald Menzies, Esq., during his first voyage round. the world, discovered this species near Nootka Sound ; and subsequently on his second voyage with the celebrated Vancouver, in 1792, found it again on various points of the coast of North- west America. From that period to 1814, it lay unnoticed in our Herbaria ; when the above-quoted author described it, partly from specimens collected in 1805 by the enterprising American travellers Lewis and Clarke, during their memorable journey; and partly from specimens deposited by Mr. Menzies in the Herbarium of the late Sir Joseph Banks, and that of the British Museum. The species, indeed, inhabits a great range of country; but it is always confined to the mountainous districts of the coast, never extending beyond the influence of the sea breeze, having been found from Point Bodago in 38? to the Straits of Juan de Fuca in 49? abundantly; and, but more sparingly, even as high as 52° north latitude. It usually grows on rocky situations, or on the shingly shores of streams, in partially shaded places. It is the most common of its tribe at * Point George,' near the con- fluence of the river Columbia. Whether we consider the delicate tints of its blossoms, which appear in March and April, the elegance of its foliage, the facility with which it is increased and cultivated, or its capability of enduring the severest of our winters without the least protection, it may be regarded as one of the finest and: most interesting additions that have been made to our shrubberies for many years. If the bushes were planted in soil having a portion of lime-rubbish mixed with it, the blossoms, would certainly be more profuse, and probably also of a deeper tint; a circumstance ie I have observed to be the case in the limestone districts of its native woods. “ The Society received seeds of this plant from me in October 1826, Which I forwarded across the continent of America. The bushes were planted in open borders in the spring of 1828; and last April they blossomed in m profusion, though scarcely two years old.”—Hort. Trans. vol. 7. p. 509. The following new species are also described in the same place; but none of them possess the merit of R. sanguineum, being mere Botanical curiosities. R. petiolare ; inerme, foliis cordato-trilobis serratis utrinque punctato- glandulosis, petiolis longissimis, racemis erectis elongatis, calycibus planiusculis : laciniis linearibus petala integerrima cuneiformia triplò excedentibus, baccis glabris.—Douglas. Found among coppice wood on the western base of the Rocky Mountains. Fruit of no value. R. divaricatum ; ramis divaricatis setosis, aculeis 1-3 axillaribus deflexis, foliis subrotundis 3-lobis inciso-dentatis nervosis glabris, pedunculis 3-floris nutantibus, calyce campanulato: laciniis linearibus reflexis tubo dupló longioribus, stylo staminibusque exsertis, baccis glabris.-— Douglas. Common on the banks of streams near Indian villages on the north-west coast of America. Fruit pleasant, as large as a goose R. irr iguum ; aculeis axillaribus ternis, foliis cordatis sub-5-lobis dentatis ciliatis utrinque pilosis nervosis, pedunculis 3-floris glanduloso-pilosis, calycibus campanulatis: laciniis linearibus tubum «equantibus, baccis glabris.— Douglas. Native of moist mountain rocks near oe and m n the north-west of America. Berry described as half an inch in diameter, and very pleasant. R. echinatum ; aculeis quinis axillaribus, ramis omnino reclinatis hispidulis, foliis 5-lobis glabris, racemis nutantibus multifloris folio longioribus, pedicellis germinibusque piloso-glandulosis, calycibus campanulatis, bracteis ovatis ciliatis, baccis hirsutis.— Douglas. On dry shelving rocky places on the mountains of northern California. Berries black, pleasant. Ji L, Nore to Senecio lilacinus, fol. 1342. Mr. Don has obligingly pointed out to us the place in which Senecio lilacinus has been named. It is described and figured in a little memoir by Dr. Schrader, called ** Blumenbachia novum ? Loasearum familia genus; adjectis observationibus super nonnullis aliis rarioribus aut minus cognitis lantis,” p. 39. t. 4. f. 1l. It is a native of the Cape; and in the opinion of Mr. Don must be placed next Senecio venustus, to which it comes nearest in affinity. 7350 {WARE 32 1350 LACHENALL4* pallida. Pale-blue-flowered. Lachenalia. ——— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AsPHODELEX. LACHENALIA.—Supra, vol. 4. fol. 287. L. pallida; corollis campanulatis, petalis 3 interioribus longioribus, flori- bus brevissimé pedunculatis horizontalibus, foliis lineari-oblongis scapo longioribus. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. 1. 460. ; L. pallida. Thunb. prodr. 64. Redouté Liliacées 22. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 172. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 985. Römer et Schultes syst. veg. 7. 605. 8. minor ; petalis sepalis subeequalibus, racemo paucifloro. L. pallida «. Supra, fol. 314. : 2 Rachis angulata, multiflora. Flores sessiles, in axilla bractee scariose. Calyx pallide plumbeo-ceruleus, laciniis petalis multo brevioribus, sub apice viridibus. Petala concolora, sed pallidiora. Folia atroviridia, immaculata. We consider this the type of L. pallida, rather than the smaller variety represented at fol. 314: it agrees better with the descriptions of authors, and is undoubtedly the state from which the definition in the Hortus Kewensis was taken, as we know from the inspection of specimens for- merly obtained from the Garden at Kew by Mr. James onn, and now in our possession. The supposed variety figured at fol. 287, is altogether another species. | Our drawing was made many years ago in the Garden of our late friend, Mr. Griffin, whose fine collection of bulbs is now unfortunately dispersed through so many hands, * Werner Lachenal, a professor of Botany at Basle, is much un known by the beautiful genus that bears his name than by any trace that he has left in the history of science. He died in 1800. that it is no longer possible to trace the fate of any particular species. In the cultivation of the genus Lache- nalia he was particularly successful. No one who ever saw his Garden in the earlier months of spring can have forgotten the beauty of his greenhouses and glazed pits glowing with hundreds of flowers of L. tricolor, quadricolor, and other richly-coloured kinds, intermixed with the lighter and more graceful blossoms of endless varieties of Ixia and Gladiolus. A Cape bulb, very easily cultivated in a pit from which frost is excluded. F E: 133% f FA, f Yo S WAR 1351 PHLOX* speciósa. Shewy Phlox. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. POLEMONIACER. PHLOX.—Supra, vol. 1. fol. 68. P. speciosa; erecta, ramosa, frutescens, glabra, foliis linearibus acuminatis pungentibus basi dilatatis subciliatis margine callosis: supremis alternis, floribus corymbosis, sepalis acuminatis margine membranaceis tubo corollee subeequalibus, laciniis corollse cuneato-oblongis integris. P. speciosa. Pursh fl. am. sept. 1. 149. ‚Römer et Schultes syst. veg. 4. 364. Spreng. syst. 1. 624. Fruticulus pedalis, erectus, ramosus, dumosus, glaber nisi ad. marginem baseos foliorum, necnon sepalorum. Folia linearia, acuminata, pungentia, tactu scabra, margine callosa, und? quasi tricostata : costis duabus mar- ginalibus ; folia superiora. alterna. Flores carnei, in ramulis terminales, corymbosi. Sepala à basi lata membranacea, acuminata, tubi corolle longi- tudine, equalia, costata, intús tomentosa. Corolla hypocrateriformis, glabra, laciniis limbi planis, cuneato-oblongis, integris. This rare plant was originally described by Pursh, from specimens in Lewis's Herbarium, collected upon the e of the Columbia. It was afterwards discovered by Ir. Douglas in abundance upon the dry lands of the same district; and from seeds collected by that traveller the solitary individual from which this figure was taken was raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society. It is extremely impatient of cultivation. The late incessant rains have nearly destroyed it; and it is to be feared that It will be soon lost altogether. A n noU NN a coronaria of moderns, * Th y m : e QXX£ of Theophrastus, the Agrostem The word itself was so called on account of the flame colour of its corolla. signifies fire. Pursh describes his plant with a pink or purple eye, like that of Vinca rosea. There was, however, no appearance of this upon the plant that flowered in the Garden; nor is it discoverable upon Mr. Douglas's wild specimens. P. speciosa is nearly related to the rare P. sibirica, a Dahurian plant, which has never found its way to our Gardens, and which is known by the hairiness of its leaves and stems. "There are also two or three other subulate- leaved species, resembling P. Hoodii, all natives of the same part of America, to which P. speciosa bears much resemblance, but from which it is very distinct. A small shrub, about a foot high, erect, branched, bushy, smooth, except at the edge of the base of the leaves and sepals. Leaves linear, acuminate, pungent, rough to the touch, callous at the edge, whence they have the appearance of having three ribs, two of which are marginal ; the upper leaves alternate. Flowers flesh-coloured, ter- minal upon the little branches, corymbose. Sepals with a broad membranous base, acuminate, the length of the tube of the corolla, equal, ribbed, downy inside. Corolla hypocrateriform, smooth ; the segments of the limb plane, cuneate-oblong, entire. J. L. 135 9. ———À Ó —9À - 1352 ACÁCIA* lunáta. Crescent-leaved Acacia. POLYGAMIA MONECIA. Nat. ord. Legumınosz. $ Mimosee. ACACIA.—Supra, vol. 2. fol. 98. Sect. 1. Foliis deformatis, nempe : foliolis seepiüs, preesertim in planta adulta, abortivis, petiolis dilatatis in Phyllodia mutatis.— Dec. prodr. 2. 448. $2. Capitato-racemosee, floribus nempé in capitula globosa collectis, capitulis sechs pedunculum axillarem racemosis. Stipule omnium subnulle aut tnermes.—Dec. I. c. A, lunata; phyllodiis dimidiato-oblongis obtusis cuspidatis glaucis subfal- catis infra medium ad latus convexius glandulosis, ramisque glabris, racemis phyllodio longioribus. A, lunata. Sieber herb. N. Holl. n. 461. sec Dec. prodr. 2. 452. Lodd. bot. cab. 384. — Sweet's flora australasica 42. A. brevifolia. Lodd. bot. cab. 1235. : _ Rami virgati, angulati, glabri. Phyllodia oblonga, obtusa, cuspidata, în petiolo attenuata, valdé glauca, glabra, marginata, subfalcata, glandulá parvá in marginem anteriorem infra medium. Capitula 5 v. 6, racemosa. Flores lutei, odorati. _ This is said to be a very variable species; and such It appears to be, if we are to judge from the figures that have been published of it, no two of which represent exactly the same state. Mr. Sweet is no doubt right 1n Identifying A. brevifolia and lunata; and we suspect there would be no great inaccuracy in advancing a step further by uniting both with A. myrtifolia. Their glaucous colour and more falcate leaves seem their principal characteristic. A native of Van Diemen's Island, flowering in April, ay, and June, thriving wherever it is protected from frost, and propagated by cuttings. Our drawing was made in IEA * See fol. 1317. Mr. Colvill’s Nursery many years since. The flowers are very fragrant. Branches weak, spreading, angular, smooth. Phyllodia oblong, obtuse, cuspidate, tapering into the petiole, very glaucous, smooth, margined, somewhat falcate, with a small gland on the inner edge below the middle. Flowers yellow, almond-scented, in heads of 5 or 6 in each raceme. J. L. Norte to Collomia heterophylla, fol. 1347. We find we have been anticipated in the comparison drawn between the spiral fibres of the testa of Collomia and the coma upon the seeds of Ascle- iadeæ and other plants. Mr. Don has pointed out some remarks by him in Jameson's Journal for January 1829, in which the same opinion is expressed. We had no doubt read this at the time of its appearance and afterwards forgotten it, or we should not have failed to acknowledge the priority of the observation, which, by the way, probably escaped our recollec- tion in consequence of being mixed up with some remarks upon true spiral vessels generally, in which we are less disposed to concur. ee 1353 STERCULIA* Tragacantha. The Sierra Leone Tragacanth Tree. POLYGAMIA MONECIA. Nat. ord. STERCULIACER. STERCULIA.— Supra, vol. 3. fol. 185. 8. Tragacantha ; foliis oblongis cuspidatis integerrimis v. apice trifidis. subtüs tomentosis, paniculis axillaribus coarctatis tomentosis, calycis laciniis apice coheerentibus. S. Tragacantha. Lindley's introduction to the natural system of botany, P. 39. ined. Arbor 40? pedes altitudine, ramulis Serrugineis tomentosis. Folia alterna, petiolata, oblonga, cuspidata, sepids utrinque rotundata, integerrima, nunc apice leviter trifida v. bifida, supra glabra, subtús cum petiolo tomentosa ; tomentum è pilis stellatis. Panicule dense tomentose, coarctate, axillares, nunc foliis breviores, nunc longiores. Calyx campanulatus, tomentosus, rufi opurpureus, 5-fidus, laciniis apice coherentibus. Stamina generis. Pis- tillum haud vidi. Our drawing of this species was taken in the Hothouse of the Comte de Vandes’ Garden at Bayswater, in which it flowered in May last. It is a native of Sierra Leone, where lt is known as the Tragacanth tree; a gum resembling Gum Tragacanth being copiously exuded by it when Wounded. The panicles of flowers are more contracted and shorter in the garden specimen than in our wild ones from Dr, Barry, and they have a tendency to become lobed at the apex: from the latter circumstance it is not improbable that the tree occasionally produces lobed leaves. . We have specimens of a plant very nearly the same as this, gathered in Sierra Leone by Mr. George Don, and marked * a tree 40 feet high." Its panicles are much arger and looser, its flowers more funnel-shaped, and “Ir segments without any tendency to cohere at the apex. €, however, dare not decide whether it is a mere variety, OT a distinct species. RN * See fol, 1256. No other Sterculia has been remarked to produce such a gum as that collected from this tree; but it is probable that many others would yield the same substance, as it seems nothing more than the concrete state of the mucilage, which is so universal in the order, and which is one of the signs of affinity between Sterculiacex and Malvacee. Besides its use as a medicinal plant, this species has no particular claim to interest the cultivator, its flowers being far from ornamental, and the foliage being very inferior in beauty to the more common Sterculia Balanghas. It will always require the heat of the stove, where it may be increased, we presume without difficulty, by cuttings. Branchlets downy, ferruginous. Leaves alternate, pe- tiolate, oblong, cuspidate, generally rounded at each end, quite entire, except at the apex, which is sometimes bifid or trifid, smooth upon the upper surface, downy on the under, and upon the petiole; the down is formed of stellate hairs. Panicles densely downy, contracted, axillary, either shorter or longer than the leaves. Calyx campanulate, downy, brownish purple, 5-cleft, the segments cohering at the apex. Stamens those of the genus. Pistilla not seen. KE NOTE. Since the foregoing matter was sent to press, we have received an early copy of the new Hortus Britannicus of Mr. Loudon, in which we find, p. 392, a Sterculia, mentioned under the name of pubescens of Mr. George Don, which is described as a native of Guinea, forming an evergreen tree, 20 feet high. Possibly this may be the same as S. Tragacantha; but its flowers are said to be white, and the period of its introduction 1793. The want of description prevents our ascertaining whether this. conjecture is w founded or not ; but we think it right to advert to the name. At the same time we may take the present opportunity of expressing our admiration of the manner in which the very, extraordinary Catalogue now referred to has been executed. The number of species admitted into it amounts to 28,565, exclusive of varieties. This, after deducting the flowerless British species, amounting to 2663, is a much more extensive list than any that has yet appeared. But it is not on account of the number of its species that it deserves attention,—as this is a subject upon which some difference of opinion may exist,—it 18 the beauty of its type, the excellent arrangement of its matter, the vast quantity of useful gardening information that it contains, and the careful application of the soundest principles of orthography and etymology to the accentuation and termination of the systematic names, that give it a claim to be considered a classical work in the literature of gardening. Its perfection in the latter respect is due to Mr. Alexander Rowan, vin labour merits the grateful acknowledgment of all readers, and will be found not less usefu to the Botanist, who is too apt to overlook such points, than to the Gardener, to whom an accurate guide for writing and speaking a language, of which he cannot be expected to possess a critical knowledge, is invaluable. It would have been perhaps better, and more conformable to the present state of science, as the Linnean and Natural system of Botany are both introduced, if the former had been made subordinate to the latter. We ud however, appreciate, and at the same time admit, the force of the motives that pa induced the editor to adopt an opposite plan, which is, after all, of less importance, as ar es — a very useful and recent Catalogue by Mr. Sweet, arranged upon the Nat System. /7) 4 3 "Ty" E - D PE E n 2 /) LM: SAURA Cua. SM by 2 Saag vy 16 Y 72 terili tin LL IIS ARA Le” Witt UEL de Z E po 4 ————— CE ———— wee eee 1354 VACCINIUM* ovátum. Ovate-leaved Bilberry. OCTANDRIA OR DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. VacciniE&. VACCINIUM.—Supra, vol. 4. fol. 302. V. ovatum; ramulis hirtis, foliis sempervirentibus ovatis coriaceis lucidis serratis glabris margine revolutis, racemis brevibus axillaribus deflexis, corollis subglobosis 5-dentatis, calycinis dentibus acutis. V.ovatum. Pursh fl. am. sept; 1.290. Spreng. syst. 2. 212. p Frutex dense foliosus, sempervirens, pedalis v. bipedalis, ramulis hirtis patentibus, v. recurvis." Folia coriacea, lucida, ovata, acuta, serrata, sub- disticha, breviter petiolata, utrinque glaberrima ; petiolis. pubescentibus. Racemi foliis breviores, deflexi, sub foliis latentes, glabriusculi, bracteis brevibus, ovatiggeycullatis. Ovarium subrotundum, glabrum s calycis dentes breves, acutff, rubrae. Corolla subglobosa, carnea, 5-dentata ; dentibus brevibus, agütis, medio sanguineis. Bacce pisi magnitudine. A native of the north-west of America, whence it was sent to the Horticultural Society. It is a hardy handsome evergreen shrub, flowering in March and April. The figure represents the state of the plant when about AAA E SS * The lexicographers say this word is of unknown meaning. It is not mentioned by Pliny, but is familiar to the classical reader by its occurrence in the Eclogues of Virgil. It is supposed by some that Virgil's Vaccinia nigra were the flowers of Delphinium Ajacis, a plant which has been conjec- tured to be the jaxó9e of the Greeks; and hence it has been thought that accinium itself was nothing more than a Latin alteration of Hyacinthus or Vacinthus. But it is most probable that the Hyacinthus of the poets was Gladiolus communis, on the flowers of which Ai Ai is distinctly marked ; and then the term Vaccinia nigra could not be applied to the Hyacinthus, if it were to Delphinium, as seems really to have been the intention of me who was no doubt speaking of flowers, and not of fruit, when he e * Alba ligustra cadunt, Vaccinia nigra leguntur." two years old from seed ; but it appears from Mr. Douglas's wild specimens that it becomes a bush, at least two feet high, with more upright and stronger shoots, bearing a vast quantity of pink flowers, which, as in many other Vacci- niums, are hidden from view by the leaves, in consequence of the latter assuming a sort of distichous direction present- ing their surfaces horizontally to the light, notwithstanding the horizontal direction of the branches; a circumstance which is in strict accordance with the laws of vegetable physiology, but which completely destroys any beauty that the plants would derive from their flowers. To be propagated by layers like the rest of the genus. It requires to be cultivated in shady places, or among bushes; but, while it is much injured by exposure to the uninterrupted rays of the sun, it suffers equally from a total absence of direct solar light; so that it will not thrive under a north wall. A shrub, covered densely with foliage, evergreen, a foot or a foot and a half high ; the branchlets hairy, spread- ing, or recurved, Leaves coriaceous, shining, ovate, acute, serrated, somewhat distichous, on short stalks, quite smooth on each side; the petioles pubescent. Racemes shorter than the leaves, deflexed, hidden beneath the foliage, nearly smooth; the bractez short, ovate, cucullate. Ovarium roundish, smooth; teeth of the calyx short, acute, red. Corolla nearly globose, flesh-coloured, 5-toothed ; the teeth short, acute, crimson in the middle. Berries the size of à pea. J.Lo 7335. ore YU EI, fp Lo ED AS ESE IO ) A 5 HU. CAMELA Get. 2 7 25A Le ue uf / Oy AKUMA aA. CV f" 1355 SCILLA* plumbea. Lead-coloured Scilla. HEXANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. AsPHODELEE., SCILLA.— Perianthium hexaphyllum, patens, eequale, deciduum (ceeru- leum). Stamina qualia, subperigyna. Stylus filiformis, intrusus. Capsula subrotunda, 4-polysperma, seminibus subglobosis. S. plumbea ; foliis liguleeformibus planis recurvis, scapo erecto tereti pauci- floro, pedicellis bracteis tripló longioribus, laciniis perianthii ovatis Car- nosis demüm reflexis pedicellis duplö brevioribus. . We only know this plant from a drawing made in 1813, in the Kew Garden, by the late Mr. Sydenham Edwards. The bulb had been imported from the Cape. We have long hoped to discover it in some of the rich. collections near London ; but after an unsuccessful search we are con- Strained to publish it, in the hope that others may be more successful. It seems to be a genuine Scilla, as far as it is possible to discover any character of distinction between that genus and Ornithogalum, which we may take this occasion to Observe, are like a great many other Linnean genera, Separated upon account of differences, much more trifling than such as modern Botany usually recognises; in fact * The oxiaan of Hippocrates and Dioscorides appears to have been the plant now called Scilla maritima, and is of unknown derivation, unless it 15 e traced to the Arabic dsqyl, which is the same plant, according to Golius, as cited by De Théis, Some persons think the name originated in the verb ™vAdw, to torment; on account of the emetic, or even poisonous properties ee i i i haps over- ma species when eaten. But this etymology is perhap they are known, as the late President of the Linnean Society has somewhere remarked, by the colour of their flowers rather than by any decided peculiarity of organisa- tion. The natural colour of Ornithogalum flowers is white or yellow, and that of Scilla blue or rose. s : 3. de 4356 Ji, —«————————— Y"S————— — ——— 1356 SALVIA* fulgen S. The Cardinal Sage. u us DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Lariarz Jussieu. (Lindley's introduction to the natural system, p. 239.) - Tribe.5. Nepeteæ Benth. Supra, vol. 15. fol. 1289. SALVIA Linn.— Calyz bilabiatus, labio superiore integro v. 3-dentato, inferiori bifido. Corolla bilabiata, labio superiori erecto fornicato v. falcato, inferiori patente trifido. Stamina fertilia 2, sub labio superiori ascendentia. Filamenta brevissima, tubo inclusa." Anthere dimidiatee; connectivo elongato filiformi incurvo, posticé szepiüs clavato, rarius anthere loculum alterum gerente. Stylus apice bifidus, lobo superiore sepiüs breviore. Achenia sicca.— Bentham, suprà, vol. 15. fol. 1292. S. fulgens; caule herbaceo erecto ramoso hirto, foliis ovatis acuminatis cordatis serratis suprà pilosiuscülis subtüs pubescentibus, verticillis 4-6-floris distantibus, calycibus pilosiusculis, corollis elongatis.—Kunth synops. 2. 79. u. o TTE S S. fulgens. Cav. ie. pl 1.4.28. Vahl enum. 1. 237. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 40. Römer et Schultes 1. 231. Spreng. syst. 1. 61. S. cardinalis. Humb. ba M Kunth A jen. 'et sp. plant. 2. 301. t. 152. Römer et Schultes, 7. 194... Spreng. syst. veg. 1. 62. Caulis 3-pedalis, pilosus, angulis rotundatis, ad basin petiolorum bical- losus. ^ Folia rugosa, 'cordáta; ovata, crenata, pilosa, longipedunculata. Racemi terminales, primam nutantes, bracteis maximis, ovatis, acuminatis, concavis, deciduis inclusi. Verticillastri triflort. Calyx pubescens, coloratus, striatus, bilabiatus, labio superiore integro subrecurvo, inferiore paulo majore, bifido, recto.: Corolla intense ‘coccinea, ventricosa, calyce tripló major, galed inflatá villosd marginibus inflexis, labio galee subequali, glabro, trilobo ; lobis replicatis, lateralibus ovatis, intermedio truncato. Stamina duo, rudimentis duóbus minimis subulatis ; filamenta brevia ; antherze lobus fertilis connectivo recto subulato, sterili equilongo deflexo spatulato piloso ; horum ope pilorum stamina coherent. Ovaria glabra, minima, disco insi- ee dente maximo antico carnoso. Stylus apice villosus. Stigma inequale, 1 0 m. y . 4 $ The first knowledge we gained of this splendid herba- ceous plant was from a specimen that flourished in July last in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, having —- 33 * See fol. 1205 VOL. XVI. I been raised, in F829, from seed collected on the mountains of Mexico by Graham, Esq., a gentleman who has enriched our Gardens with several fine things, and who has formed a most interesting Herbarium of Mexican mountain plants. About the same time, a plant that had been com- municated by Mr. H. Silverloek, nurseryman, Chichester, produced its blossoms in the same collection. Notwith- standing the unfavourable summer we have just expe- rienced, a summer so cold that the natives of milder climates have scarcely been able to support a feeble existence, and in which the common Salvia splendens has not produced a single flower, this species has displayed its nodding heads of dazzling scarlet in all their nativé . beauty. On this account the Cardinal Sage may be ex- pected to prove a most valuable addition to our autumnal flowers; for if it succéeds thus well in à summer almost unparalleled for cold, wet, and gloom, what may not be hoped from it in a more genial season? It grows about 3 feet high, and strikes freely from cuttings. The constitutional difference between Salvia splendens and fulgens is, no doubt, due to the very dissimilar localities they naturally occupy. While the former is a native of Brazil, the latter grows abundantly in cold situations be- tween Tolucca and Tianguillo, at an elevation of betweefi nine and ten thousand feet above the sea. Hence, if due allowance is made for the decrement of caloric as we rise i the atmosphere, the station of S. fulgens, although geographically about 20? from the equator, is, in point of climate, the same as that of Virginia. It is therefore probable that it will prove capable even of bearing our winters without protection, which would be an excellent quality; but we are not aware that any person has at present direct experience upon the subject. Mr. Graham’s wild specimens have the leaves either nearly green beneath, or densely covered with white down; hence it is not impossible that the S. pulchella of Decan- dolle may be, as Steudel suspects, the same thing. Forty years ago this was cultivated in the Gardens of Madrid, and yet it has at last found its way to England from the New World before it has reached us from Spain! Cavanilles called it by the name here adopted; and we are obliged, on that account, to abandon the more recent en but better name of S. Cardinalis, by which it was described . by M. Kunth. The stem is about 3 feet high, hairy, with rounded angles, and two callosities at the base of the petiole. Leaves .rugose, cordate, ovate, crenated, hairy, on long stalks. Racemes terminal, at first nodding, enclosed within very large ovate, acuminate, concave, deciduous bractee. Verticillastri 3-flowered. Calyx downy, coloured, striated, 2-lipped, the upper lip entire, somewhat recurved, the lower rather larger, bifid, straight. Corolla deep scarlet, ven- tricose, three times as large as the calyx; the helmet in- flated, villous, with inflected margins; the lip nearly equal to the helmet, smooth, 3-lobed; the lobes folded back, the lateral ones ovate, with the intermediate one truncate. Stamens 2, with very small subulate rudiments of two others. Filaments short; fertile lobe of the anther with a straight subulate connectivum ; sterile of the same length, deflexed, spatulate, pilose; it is by the aid of these hairs that the stamens cohere. Ovaria smooth, very small, seated on a disk with a very large anterior fleshy tooth. Style villous at the end. Stigma unequal, 2-lobed, J. .b. AF IY ot PE 0. AME oN M cA 1357 TILLANDSIA* rósea, Pink-headed Tillandsia. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. BromeLiacea Jussieu. (Lindley's introduction to the natural system of botany, p. 256.) TILLANDSIA.—Supra, vol. 2. fol. 105. se . . . . . . m ^ i. T. rosea ; foliis ligulatis acuminatis furfuracels patentibus, spicá ovatá soli sA .. . . . . > tariá foliis vix longiore, bracteis ovatis concavis. | Our drawing of this undescribed species of Tillandsia was made some years since, from a plant-in the possession of the Marchioness of Bath... It flowered in the month of May, but having afforded only a single specimen, we had not an opportunity of examining it in detail. It is, how- ever, distinguished sufficiently. by its ovate head of flowers scarcely higher than the leaves, and bright pink bractez. A native of Brazil. In the second edition of Sweet's Hortus Britannicus, Which is just published, we find the names of five Tilland- sias, with which we are unaéquainted ;| but this can scarcely be one of them, as they are all stated to be natives of the est Indies, and none of the names /are applicable to the species now represented. In the last Number of this pub- lication we observed, in, speaking of Mr. Loudon’s Hortus Britannicus, that whatever inconvenience the public might experience from the Linnean arrangement of that work, would be remedied by consulting Mr. Sweets Catalogue, which is arranged upon the Natural System. At that time we were not aware that the new Catalogue, by the rn author, to which we have just referred, was upon the eve o M * Supra, vol. 14, fol. 1157. publication. We have since examined it, and find it a decided improvement upon the first edition; the paper and printing are better, the colour of the flowers and many useful signs indicating general characters of growth have been added throughout; it contains nearly two hundred pages more than before; and, as far as we can ascertain, by taking an average of the pages, it comprehends about 34,000 species and varieties. J. L. 1358 CANNA* Achiras. Mendoza Canna. v. EEE MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. MaRANTACEE R. Br.—(Introduction to the natural system of botany, p. 267.) CANNA.—Supra, vol. 7. p. 576. C. Achiras ; perianthii exterioris foliolis interioribus tribus lanceolatis acu- minatis ineequalibus ; interioris triphylli foliolis 2 superioribus maximé ineequalibus cum inferiore (labello) oblongo recurvato integerrimis, foliis ovato-oblongis abrupte acuminatis, caule lanuginoso.— D. Don in litt. Canna Achiras. Gillies MSS. sec. cl. Don. MTM A ee aE nn — The specimen from which this figure was taken was communicated in August last by Mr. Lambert. Mr. Don, who is well acquainted with it, has obliged us with his specific character, and the following memoranda. Mr. Lambert remarks, that it is the hardiest Canna he has ever cultivated. “ A native of Mendoza, and was raised last year from seeds communicated by Dr. Gillies, who considers it a new species, and calls it Canna Achiras. It is closely allied to Canna lanuginosa Rosc. t. 16, which comes from Maranham ; but in that, as appears from the figure, the leaves are much narrower and lanceolate ; the intermediate series of the perianth nearly equal, and the two upper foliola of the inner series emarginate. In C. lanuginosa the flowers are also of a more uniform colour, and the Intermediate series of the perianth of a deep red. M . , See fol. 1231. Achiras is, we presume, the name by which the species is known in Mendoza. ** Stem from 4 to 5 feet high, clothed, particularly in the young state, with a deciduous woolly down. Leaves oblong-ovate, abruptly acuminate; the lower ones a foot or more in length, and six inches broad; the uppermost more ovate, seven to eight inches long and four broad. Flowers mostly in pairs, on short peduncles. Bracts broadly elliptical, concave, rounded at the top, membranous, de- ciduous.” J. da Nore to fol. 1311. . Mr. Don informs us, that he is now convinced that Canna lagunensis is distinct from C. pallida of Roscoe. He finds the lip of C. lagunensis brin entire, while that of C. pallida is deeply notched.—See note to ol. ; ee NNNM ——— "PE "PT ^j PR, : las Ty w^, Jor! JU Madh. a 1359 | RÍBES* divaricátum.. Straggling Gooseberry. PENTANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. GrossuLacea Dec. (Lindley's introduction to the natural system, p. 54.) RIBES.—Supra, vol. 2. fol. 125. ** AnMATA. Gooseberries. R. divaricatum ; ramis divaricatis setosis, aculeis 1-3 axillaribus deflexis, folis subrotundis trilobis inciso-dentatis nervosis glabris, pedunculis trifloris nutantibus, calyce campanulato : laciniis linearibus reflexis tubo duplö longioribus, stylo staminibusque exsertis, baccis glabris.— Douglas in hort. trans. vol. 7. p. 515. Bot. reg. 1349, in textu. _ “ A robust bush, of erect habit, six or eight feet high, with divaricated branches, the younger ones sparingly and unequally clothed with minute, bristle-shaped prickles, and having one or three, large, Strong, deflexed prickles under each bud. The leaves are rounded, 3-lobed, coarsely cut, toothed, smooth, and veiny, about an inch long ; the footstalks somewhat shorter, with a few scattered hairs near their base. The clusters droop below the branches, are 3- or 5-flowered, shorter than the leaves, slender and smooth, with rounded, subamplexicaul bractex. The calyz Is bell-shaped, yellowish-green, with linear, brownish red, reflected segments, which are double the length of the tube. Petals wedge-shaped, white, half the length of the limb. The stamens are exserted beyond the calyx, half an inch long. Style considerably longer than the stamens, semi-bifid, spreading, villous. Berry spherical, smooth, neue of an inch in diameter, black, pleasant to the aste." * See fol. 1237. * A common bush on the banks of streams, near Indian villages, on the north-west coast of America, from 45” to 52? north latitude. “ This species flowered last April in the Horticultural Societys Garden. It ranks systematically next R. tri- florum of Willdenow.”— Douglas in Hort. Trans. 7. 515. To this account by Mr. Douglas, we have only to add, that it proves a hardy shrub, and increases freely by cuttings. J. L. 1300 f —1 x 5 f | A MH | A 1360 SPARAXIS* pendula. Pendulous-flowered Sparaxis. = : a; T TRIANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 2603 ord. Inipex Juss. (Lindley's introduction to the natural system, Pp. P "E SPARAXIS Ker.—Supra, vol. 3. fol. 258. S. pendula ; foliis linearibus strictis scapo polystachyo duplo brevioribus, _ Spicis pendulis multifloris. zu Iria pendula. Thunb. diss. no. 16. Prodr. 9, Flor. cap. 1.286. Linn. Suppl. 91. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 204. Vahl enum. 2. 66. Römer et Schultes syst, veg. 1. 392. Spreng. syst. veg. 1. 156. Watsonia palustris. Persoon synops. 45. Sparaxis pendula. Ker in bot. mag. 1482 (in textu). Botan. reg. v. 3. append. Spreng. syst. veg. 1. 149. Ker genera Irid. 92. _ Herba rigida, perennis, cespitosa, folis linearibus, acutis, strictis, 3-pedalibus, scapis brevioribus. Scapi graciles, erecti, apice penduli, polystachyi; spice pedunculis capillaribus insidentes, pendule, secunda, 6-7-flore, Jfolüs binis capillaribus ad basin pedunculi cujusvis. Flores Secundi, lilacini, venosi, intrà bracteas (v. spathas) membranaceas, con- volutas, sublaceras, sessiles, Perianthium sexpartitum, sepalis petalisque conformibus, oblongis, obtusis, sub sole patentibus. Anthere lineares, atro- Purpuree. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis, loculicida, seminibus duobus sub- rotundis brunneis in utroque loculo. . A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence it was Introduced a year or two ago by Mr. Tate. Thunberg found it growing in wet situations near Kramrivier, with Capes six feet high. In Mr. Herbert's Conservatory, Whére it blossomed in June last, for the first time in Fngland, the flowering stems were four feet high, and the ength of the full-grown leaves three feet. "e o 1 "\From exuedoro, to teür. The generic, distinction consists in the acerated spathas.— Zoudon’s Encycl. of Plants, p. 41. Propagated either by division of the root, or by seed, which it ripens in this country. A handsome conservatory plant, well worth cultivation. According to Thunberg the flowers are pink (incarnati); with us they are lilac. A rigid, perennial, cespitose, herbaceous plant, with linear, acute, straight leaves, shorter than the scapes. Scapes erect, slender, pendulous at the end, and divided into several branches. Spikes placed upon capillary pe- duncles, pendulous, l-sided, 6-7-flowered, with two capil- lary leaves at the base of each peduncle. Flowers 1-sided, lilac, veiny, sessile, within membranous, convolute, some- what lacerated spathes. Perianthium 6-parted, the sepals and petals both of the same figure, oblong, obtuse, spread- ing open in the sun. Anthers linear, dark purple. Capsule 3-celléd, 3-valved, loculicidal, with two roundish brown seeds in each cell. xi. | ER: Jeka M Ee del ` Pato bay I Iedgway 169 Poaasaustge el 4 AT Weil 26 1361 ZEPHYRANTHES* mesochloa. Half-green Zephyranthes. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDEE R. Br. (Lindley's introduction to the natural system, p. 259.) i =: ZEPHYRANTHES.— Supra, vol. 10. fol. 821. Z. mesochloa; bulbo ovato nigricante; foliis 8-9 viridibus duriusculis canaliculatis acutis; scapo 7 unciali viridi (in seminando versüs basin plus duplo crassiore, rubro minuté maculato) pedunculo circiter unciali; spathá apice’ fenestratá vel divisá; corollá 12 unciali infrà viridi suprà alba extús rubro notatá; tubo brevissimo fauce levi; laciniis externis semunciam latis, internis angustioribus ; stylo corollä unciam breviore ; filamentis internis stylum fere adeequantibus, externis brevioribus; stig- mate albo amplo trilobo.— Herbert's MSS. Var. æ. spathá fenestratá. Var. 8. pedunculo breviore, corollà vix rubro notatá. Var. y. spathá apice divisá, corollá aliquantulum flavescente. Z. mesochloa. Herbert. Supra, fol. 1345, in textu. =$ ic 5 “ This species of Zephyranthes was sent to Mr. Mackay, N urseryman of Clapton, by his collector Mr. Anderson, in company with Habranthus Andersoni, from the neighbour- hood of Buenos Ayres. It produced three successive Scapes in June and July, in the Greenhouse at Spofforth, and ripened its seed. A variety shorter in the peduncle and corolla, and scarcely stained with red; and another with the point of the spathe divided, and the flower tending a little more to greenish yellow, produced a like number Äi * We are not aware that Mr. Herbert has any where explained the meaning of this name, [t is evidently derived from Zipugos, the west wind, and i9, a flower; and was possibly so called because all the species are natives of western countries. of successive scapes, and seed also. Habranthus Andersoni flowers and seeds not less abundantly. * Bulb ovate, blackish. Leaves 8 or 9, green, ith of an inch wide, hardish, channelled, acute. Scape about seven inches long, while the seed is ripening becoming more than twice as thick as before towards the base, speckled with minute short red streaks, and longer. Pe- duncle an inch long. Spathe a little longer, either looped at the end, or divided at the point. Corolla about an inch and ¿ths long, the lower half green, the upper white, stained on the outside with red; the outer petals half an inch wide, the inner narrower; the style an inch shorter than the limb; the stigma white, large, deeply 3-lobed; the outer filaments nearly as long as the style, the inner shorter; the mouth of the tube smooth. The variety with the point of the spathe divided has the peduncle longer." For the drawing and information relating to this new species we are indebted to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, by whom they were obligingly communicated in August last. | Jib. — HN 12 a ar LY, 1d? — A —— - — 1362 MALVA* purpuráta. Purple Mallow: MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. MaLvacrz Juss. _(Lindley's introduction to the natural system, p. 33.) MALVA.—Supra, vol. 4. fol. 296. n pots $ 1. MarvasTRUM; carpella unilocularia monosperma. Dec. = Bismalvæ; floribus purpurascentibus aut albis, pedicellis axillaribus solitariis unifloris, involucro triphyllo, foliis multipartitis, caule herbaceo.— Dec. prodr. 1. 432. M. purpurata ; pubescens, ascendens, foliis inferioribus 5-fidis superioribus trifidis: laciniis seepiüs trifidis lobis furcatis obtusis, floribus solitariis, peduncnlis petiolis longioribus. erba perennis, ascendens, ramis diffusis intricatis circulum diametro 2-pedali efformantibus. Rami pubescentes. Folia pubescentia, inferiora 5-partita, superiora 3-partita, laciniis subtrilobis: lobis divaricatim sub- bilobis. Flores solitarii, axillares, pedunculo petiolo sepids longiore. In- volucrum Jere obsoletum, à tribus setis deciduis constans, Calyx tomentosus, campanulatus, 5-fidus, laciniis acutis. Petala purpurea, cuneata, calyce longiora. Carpella monosperma, indehiscentia, inappendiculata, pubescentia. Raised in 1826, in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, from seeds collected by Mr. M'Rae in the Cumbre, a pass in the Chilian Andes, in November 1825. In this country it is a hardy perennial, inereasing very little by the root, but producing seeds in dry seasons. It flowers in June, and continues in beauty till the frosts of autumn nip it. It requires no particular attention, thriving in any common garden soil. : À perennial herbaceous plant, forming a patch about two feet in diameter by its prostrate or ascending entangled * An alteration of iaa», the Greek name of the Mallow. branches. Branches pubescent. Leaves downy, the lower 5-parted, the upper 3-parted ; the segments 3-lobed, with divaricate, somewhat 2-lobed divisions. Flowers solitary, axillary, their peduncle generally longer than the petiole. Involucrum nearly obsolete, consisting of three deciduous bristles. Calyx downy, campanulate, 5-cleft, with acute segments. Petals purple, cunéate, longer than the calyx. Carpella one-seeded, indehiscent, without appendages, pubescent. J. An wie \ L1 > - i \ h x AN OA ee A i YAY a TH / ELL MM Ma ; AH HF: A - 1363 BANKSLA* littorális. Shore Banksia. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Proteacex Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of botany, p. 68.) BANKSIA.—Supra, vol. 16. fol. 1316, B. littoralis ; foliis elongato-linearibus spinuloso-dentatis basi attenuatis subtüs aveniis, perianthiis deciduis, folliculis compressis bracteisque strobili apice tomentosis, caule arboreo, ramulis tomentosis.— Brown in Linn. trans. 10. p. 204. Prodr. 392. Römer et Schultes, 3. 438. Frutex in horto orgyalis, ramulis gracilibus purpureo-cinereis villosis. Folia linearia, in petiolo attenuata, apice truncata, spinuloso-dentata presertim ultra medium, suprà subtilissime pubescentia, subtús albo-lanata, avenia, costá denudatd. Amentum cylindraceum, calycibus rufis bracteisque sericeis, stylis rigidis, purpureis. A native of the southern part of New Holland, where it was found by Mr. Brown without flowers. It is now not uncommon in our conservatories, but rarely flowers. Our drawing was made in the conservatory of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at Syon, in March last. If we can judge from our wild New Holland specimens, the species is subject to variation in the denticulations of the leaves. We have-what appears to be identical with this, with some leaves altogether entire, and the remainder very slightly toothed. > . A shrub, growing as high as a man in our conservatories, with slender purple-gray villous branches. Leaves long, linear, tapering to the petiole, truncate, spinous-toothed, : i. eae ^* See fol. 1316. VOL, “aK VES 1 K especially beyond the middle, with very minute down on the upper side; white with down, except the naked mid- rib, and veinless, beneath. Amentum cylindrical, with rufous calyxes, which are downy, as well as the bractex and rigid purple styles. J.-L. 156), d FA 7] 1364 SISYRINCHIUM* grandiflórum. Large-flowered Sisyrinchium. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Irntpex Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of botany, p. 260.) SISYRINCHIUM.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1067. S. grandiflorum; caule stricto glauco striato foliis erectis vaginantibus longiore, spathis bifloris : foliolis erectis altero floribus longiore, peri- anthio pedicello subzequali. S. grandiflorum. Douglas. . Perennis, radicibus fibrosis, repentibus, Caulis erectus, striatus, glaucus, simplicissimus, palmaris v. paulo ultra. Folia glauca, inferiora squa- miformia, superiora erecta, basi vaginantia, apice patentia, caule breviora. Spatha erecta, bivalvis, foliolis inequalibus : exteriore lineari-lanceolato, floribus longiore. Perianthium atropurpureum, striatum, filamentis stylisque Sanguineis, antheris luteis. This beautiful little herbaceous plant is a native of the North-west of North America, near the great falls of the river Columbia, where Mr. Douglas found it in 1826. It isa hardy herbaceous plant, flowering in May and June, ut is at present exceedingly rare, only two or three seeds aving grown, and the plants from these increasing very slowly. Tt appears to love a peat border among bushes. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society. A perennial plant, with fibrous, creeping roots. Stem erect, striated, glaucous, quite simple, a span or little more in height. Leaves glaucous, the lower scale-like, the upper Fe NM A ” The eiweelyyie of Theo — appears to have been either the modern Iris Sisyribeliudt or TELA ulbocodium, both ot nearly related to this. It was so called Débit was sought as food by pigs, or Css. erect, sheathing at the base, spreading at the apex, shorter than the stem. Spathe erect, 2-valved, with unequal leaflets; the outer linear-lanceolate, and longer than the flowers. Perianth deep purple, striated; the filaments and styles sanguine, the anthers yellow. y. La cl . CS UN E END SANUS OS. 7, ÍA / N \ ^ FINN N HER 2 N 1365 SPIRAEA* ariæfólia. | Beam- T'ree-leaved Spirea. ——9———— ICOSANDRIA PENTAGY NIA. Nat. ord. Rosacem Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of botany, p. 81.) ` i ds SPIRZEA L.— Calyx. 5-fidus, persistens. Stamina 10-50 cum petalis toro calyce adherente inserta. Carpella 1-00 distincta, rariter basi coalita, brevé apiculata, sessilia, raro stipitata. Semina 2-6 suture interne affixa, exalbuminosa. “Embryo inversus, cotyledonibus crassiusculis.——-Frutices inermes, v. herbe perennantes. Rami alterni. Folia alterna, simplicia, raro decomposito-pinnatisecta, nervis pennatis v. ternato-palmatis. Flores albi aut rubicundi nunquam flavi.—Dee. prodr. 2. 541.. $ Spiratia. Ovaria libera. ‘Torus apice liber, basi tubo calycino con- cretus. Carpella non inflata.—Frutices. “Flores hermaphroditi paniculati. Folia serrata exstipulata.—Dec, I. c. hi c E S. ariefolia ; foliis ovatis obtusis inciso-serratis subpinnatifidis basi cuneatis subtüs tomentosis, paniculà multiflora villosa basi divaricatä. S. arieefolia. Smith in Rées, vol. 33. Dec. prodr. 2. 544. S. discolor. : Pursh fl. am. bor. 1. 342. Dec. prodr. 2. 545... D aF rutex erectus, dumosus, “amis strictis. epidermide cinnamomeo-griseo . obductis, subangulatis. Folia simplicia, ovato-oblonga, suprà glabra, subtüs tomentosa, nunc grosse serrata, nunc, inciso-serrata, nunc pinnatifida, basi cuneata, laciniis obtusis, serratis ; stipulis obsoletis. Paniculee terminales, multiflore, dense, ramis inferioribus sepius longioribus, divaricatis ; ramulis villosis. Calyx rotatus, albus, 5-partitus, laciniis ovatis, villosis, peta- loideis. Petala /aciniis calycinis subequalia, oblonga, venis tribus in medio. Stamina in disco tubum calycis tegente inserta. Carpella 5, villosa, mono- sperma, ovulo solitario appenso. ` A handsome hardj "shrub, "native of the North-west of North America, where its seed was collected by Mr. Douglas for the Horticultural Society. It was & * * The shrub called erugaïe by Theophrastus, and spireon by Pliny, is supposed by some to have been our Spirea salicifolia, by others Viburnum Lantana. "The latter is called by the modern Greeks xA«uag/d ; the former seems to be unknown to them. u y originally discovered by Mr. Menzies, from whose speci- mens Smith described it in Rees's Cyclopedia. S. discolor of Pursh is no doubt the same species, and will therefore have to be expunged. We adopt Smith's name, although the most recent, because there appears to be no meaning in Pursh's. In this country it has as yet been known so short a time in a living state, that it is not possible to state what stature it will acquire; it is, however, probable that it will never exceed 9 or 10 feet in height, if it should become solarge. It flowers in June and July, when its large loose panicles render it a handsome object. Quite hardy, and easily increased by cuttings or by layers. . This is one of a set of plants, which, if they be con- sidered the type of the genus Spirea, are distinguished by their oligospermous distinct carpella and exstipulate leaves; they are nevertheless retained by the most recent Botanists that have examined them, in the same group as Spirea Aruncus, opulifolia, and sorbifolia,—in all which the habit, fruit, and foliage, are decidedly different.. We confess it appears to us, that there is litile consistency in this, while such genera as Sieversia and Geum, Potentilla and Fragaria, are separated. Surely it would be more conformable to the modern principles of constructing genera, principles that have been well illustrated by M. Decan- dolle’s recent work upon Umbelliferz, to consider the old Spiræa made up of several distinct genera; among which Seringe’s section Sorbaria, or our Schizonotus, which is to Rosacez nearly what Nigella is to Ranunculacee, should be among the first to be recognised. J.L. / 266. 1366 AZALEA* calenduläcea ; var. subcúprea. Copper-coloured Highelere Azalea. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ey ord. Ericex Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of botany, p. 182. own AZALEA.—Supra, vol. 2. fol. 120. A. calendulacea, subnudiflora; foliis utrinque: pubescentibus : adultis hir- sutis, floribus amplis non viscosis, calycis dentibus oblongis, corolla tubo hirsuto laciniis breviore.—Suprà, fol. 145, with the synonyms. Var. subcuprea. Gowen in litt. This and the following are a part of the result of some extensive experiments instituted at Highclere, the seat of the Earl of Caernarvon, for the purpose of improving the colours of the American Azaleas by cross impregnation. ‚th what perfect success this attempt has been rewarded Will be apparent from an inspection of these figures, and of some others that will appear hereafter, which have been selected from a very considerable number of equally striking Varieties. Mr. Gowen, under whose direction the inter- mixture has been made, has favoured us with the following Particulars of these experiments, which are already so "portant to Horticulture, and which may also throw light Upon some physiological questions in which the world is much interested, but which cannot be satisfactorily settled Without multiplied observations, conducted with the utmost precision. This was one of those which, it will be seen, were obtained from a variety of Azalea. nudiflora, called in the ORES o E US x * From álantos, dry; either in allusion to the places where the species B'Ow, or to the dry brittle nature of their branches. Nurseries rubescens, fertilised by the pollen of that Azalea calendulacea which is known as Lee's triumphans. Mr. Herbert informs us that the seedlings thus raised are very sterile; but that he has obtained from one of the best varieties a few seeds which have vegetated. Mr. Gowen's remarks are as follow : — * I have much pleasure in giving you the history of the beautiful seedling Azaleas, which flowered last summer in the Garden at High- clere. Lord Caernarvon had long been desirous of raising seedlings from crosses between the high-coloured and late-flowering varieties. To effect this object; I selected for mother plants the Azalea coccinea var. minor, Á. coccinea var. major, and a late-flowering variety called by some of the N urserymen A. rubescens, by others A. autumnalis rubra. The two first-mentioned varieties are in the climate of High- clere, and perhaps throughout England, very unproductive of pollen, rarely seeding when unassisted by art. A. rubescens is somewhat more prolific, but unaided may be reckoned a shy seeder also. . “ The two A. coccineas were dusted with the pollen of a late- flowering A. pontica for several successive mornings. No care was taken to deprive the plants experimented upon of their anthers, their deficiency of pollen having been ascertained. Many pods swelled, which were found to contain heavy seed ; these were gathered at the approach of winter, kept in a drawer some weeks, and sowed in the first week in January. Of numbers which vegetated, about four hundred seedlings were raised. The A. rubescens was impregnated with the pollen of A. calendulacea var, triumphans, and from this cross about a hundred were raised. Of the first-mentioned four hundred seedlings, perhaps three-fourths are, in foliage, inflorescence, and habit, so like their father, A. pontica, that, though varying much in the tints of the corolla, any person not aware of their origin would reckon them mere seminal varieties of that species, so greatly does its type predominate. Some are very lovely, especially one possess- ing extraordinary merit, which we have named A. pontica. versi- Color. Generally speaking, they run through. many intermediate shades, from orange to the lightest cream colours, suffused with pink in A. pontica versicolor, and are very fragrant. The remaining fourth part of these seedlings take after their mothers in habit, but their foliage is on a larger scale. The inflorescence preserves little trace of A. pontica, yet varies considerably from that of either of thé varieties of A. coccinea. The colours are more lively, and of various tints of crimson, and vivid pink or scarlet ; and there is in several, particularly in the specimen (A. thyrsiflora) sent to you, a tendency more or less developed to produce flowers laterally.: In some the vivid pink and light crimson tints are very beautiful; and there 1s hardly an individual among them which, a few years ago, would not have been thought an acquisition to the Garden. The seedlings from A. rubescens, by A. triumphans, were never with me the objects of so much solicitude as those just described. They surpass, them greatly in magnificence, following generally the type of A. calendu- lacea, and are very late-flowering plants, of many gradations of colour, from pale yellow to orange, salmon-colour, pink, and beauti- ful mixed tints; they produce large umbels, with expanded corollas, are elegant in habit, and hardly to be surpassed in loveliness. Of those which flowered here last summer for the first time, we were able to discriminate su fficiently to give names to about thirty varieties, each of distinguished beauty or fragrance. NAMES OF VARIETIES. A. Cartonia A. calodendron Govenia aurotincta polyantha eeritincta basilissa aurore imperatrix pretiosa habrantha delicata habropis erythrea scintillans calantha chariessa ochroleuca jasminodora inclyta sanguinea subcuprea Herbertiana poikela eugenes regia — euprepes dictatrix — eudemon pontica versicolor calocoryphe expansa, — calostephane and many others. de m 1367 AZALEA* nudiflóra; var. thyrsiflora. The Highclere Scarlet Azalea. — ———— PENTANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 135 ord. Erıcex Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of botany, p. 182. A. nudiflora, subnudiflora ; foliis lanceolato-oblongis utrinque glabriusculis concoloribus, nervo suprà lanuginoso subtüs setigero margine ciliatis, floribus amplis non viscosis: tubo laciniis longiore, calycis dentibus brevibus ovali-subrotundis, staminibus longissimé exsertis, — Supra, Fol. 120, with the synonyms. Var. thyrsiflora. Gowen in litt. Mr. Herbert considers this a natural seedling of Azalea coccinea. It was raised at Highclere with the last, and IS one of the most beautiful shrubs we have yet seen; none of the varieties formerly cultivated can be com- pared with it for the rich thyrses of flowers with which it is covered. It is referred to in the foregoing account. J. L. * See fol. 1366. 1368 RÜBUS* nutkánus. -. Nootka Raspberry. ICOSANDRIA POLYGY NIA. Nat. ord. Rosacrz Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of botany, p. 81.) ; RUBUS.—Supra, vol. 6. fol. 461. R. nutkanus ; caule fruticoso erecto flexuoso stolonifero apice glanduloso- piloso basi nudiusculo, foliis 5-lobis ineequaliter dentatis, corymbis . simplicibus, calycibus subinermibus cuspidatis : laciniis corollee albe eequalibus, stipulis connatis persistentibus. R. nutkanus. Dec. prodr. 2. 566. Frutex omnind habitu Rubi odorati; differt ramis magis flexuosis minus setosis, imd nisi apice subinermibus, foliis opacis subtüs inermibus, denticulis magis inequalibus, stipulis connatis persistentibus mec deciduis, corymbis simplicibus paucifloris nec paniculatis, demúm calycibus subinermibus cus- am E albis equalibus nec hispidissimis cuspidibus petalis purpureis ioribus. i A native of the North-west coast of America, where it was found by Mr. Douglas, who sent its seeds to the Horticultural Society. It flowers irregularly from May to October, and in a wild state bears much larger flowers | than those represented upon the figure, which is, however, à faithful copy of its present garden state. It is propagated readily by cuttings, Or by suckers, Which it produces in em d abundance: its fruit has not yet been seen. ! In general appearance it is extremely like the common übus odoratus; but if the two plants, as they grow in our Gardens, be compared, they will be found to exhibit the following differences:— Rubus odoratus has straight c Cos NEM * According to De Theis derived from the Celtic rub, red. The classical Writers appear to have applied it as we do. stems covered with glandular pubescence, sub-lucid leaves, the denticulations of which are nearly equal, with all the under surface and petioles covered by glandular pubescence: its stipulee are also distinct and deciduous. But in R. nut- kanus the stems are decidedly flexuose, and destitute of all hairiness or armature, except now and then a weak solitary bristle; its leaves are not lucid, and neither they nor the petioles have any glands; the denticulations are very unequal; and the stipule are persistent and connate by their upper margins, as is shewn in the figure at 1. Add to this, the flowers of R. nutkanus are smaller, and usually appear in threes, while those of R. odoratus form a compound corymbose panicle. R. nutkanus also runs very much at the root, which R. odoratus does not. But in the wild state some of these distinctions disappear. The petioles of R. nutkanus are glandular, and the flowers are as large as those of R. odoratus; the difference in the denticulations also ceases to be appreciable. Are these plants, then, mere varieties or distinct species? This can only be answered by going into an inquiry which our limits preclude; it involves the question of whether the separa- tion of European Rubuses into numerous species has been judicious or not; and within what bounds the specific cha- racters of the genus are to be confined. To us it seems that, if the distinction between the Rubus corylifolius and ceesius of English Botanists be once admitted as valid, it is impossible to avoid receiving all the others that have recently been distinguished, unless the characters of species are wholly arbitrary, and not to be determined upon any fixed principles. We have before insisted upon the exist- ence of a wide difference between Botanical and Natural species, and this appears to be confirmed by daily expe- rience. J. L. , ; s — ni. AAA ÍA E t TI hfa de Jf i y E f : : : i SU bi / A / A y ( r : A > Í i AM th L E Z^ Y CIT ua Wi 1369 ANOMATHÉCA* cruenta. Blood-spotted Anomatheca. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ee ord. In1pEx Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of botany, p. e ANOMATHECA Ker.—Inflorescentia spicata. tha bivalvis, brevis. Corolla tubuloso-sexfida, hypocrateriformis, subirregularis, erecta; limbus rotatus, laciniis oblongis cuneatis, tubo recto angusté fauciali subbrevioribus. Stamina secunda; (antheris parallelis). | Stigmata angustissima, condupli- cata, bipartita. Capsula ovato-globosa, papilloso-aspera. Semina biserialia, plurima, rotunda. —- Herba palmaris, v. ultradodrantalis, ortu obliquissimo proveniens, postquam erecta. Bulbotuber ovatum, exuviis mollibus stupaceo- fibrosis. Folia collateralia, plura (4-8), gladiata, infern? à latere interiore ax ferà tenus excisa, sepe subundulata ; exteriora latiora, subovato-gladiata, Sepiüs falcata. Caulis teres, subjunceus, paniculatus, multiflorus, nudius- culus, foliis plurimúm longior, ramis ad basin foliolo stipatis, plerumque divisis, Flores remotiusculi, magnitudine mediá. Spatha pusilla, sub- herbacea, obtusa. Corollarum lacinie parum inequales, obtuse, deorsüm attenute, roseo-albicantes ; infimee tres macul definitd pipe notate. Antheree oblonga, violacee, contigue, tubi fauce emicantes. psula piso majusculo parum grandior. Semina sinapeos subsimilia.— Ker genera Iridearum, p. 111. A. cruenta; limbo bilabiato tubo dupló breviore, maculis ovatis conformibus. Valde affinis A. juncee, presertim ee in Botan. Magaz. depicte, potws- quam isti grandiori et ramosiori Andreusü ; differt tamen colore florum mtensiore, limbo magis irregulari omnind bilabiato, et maculis faucis con- Sormibus, nec intermediá diversd. ——À For this we are obliged to Mr. Tate, of Sloane Street, Who communicated it in May last, with the informa- üon, that he had received it several years ago from the ape, and finds it a very desirable plant, continume to throw out flowering shoots till late in the autumn. The * So called from avouos and Syxa; On account of its frosted capsule. Thuc dai estin, AZ bulbs should be planted in April, when intended as a border flower, and taken up in November. A native of the Cape of Good Hope, and nearly related to Anomatheca juncea, of the same country, from which it differs chiefly in the longer tube of its flower, in thegreater irregularity of the limb, in the deeper crimson colour, and in the form of the sanguine spots at the base of the three anterior segments. J. L. MÀ am——— ——M MH M a— M 1370 SALVIA* Grahám:. Mr. Graham's Sage. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Lantatz Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of botany, p. 239.) SALVIA.—Supra, vol. 16. fol. 1356. B S. Grahami; caule fruticoso erecto ramoso glanduloso-pubescente et bi- fariám piloso, foliis petiolatis ovatis obtusis crenatis basi cuneatis vel rotundatis tenuissimé pubescentibus, racemis elongatis simplicibus, verti- cillastris remotis 2-6- floris, foliis floralibus ovatis acuminatis ante anthesin deciduis, calycibus tubulosis striatis glanduloso-pubescentibus: labio Superiori integro dentibusque labii inferioris ovatis acuminatis, corollá calyce dupló longiore: tubo basi intüs bidentato sub fauce ventricoso, labio superiori recto, inferioris lobo medio maximo orbiculato emarginato, staminibus corolla brevioribus, stylo exserto apice subtis villoso. — Bentham. . “ Very nearly allied to S. microphylla of Kunth, which is a low, branching shrub, with much smaller rugose leaves, and smaller flowers. In my wild specimens of both species the verticillasters are-biflorous only."— Bentham. We are indebted to Mr. Bentham fot the determination of this species, and for its specific character. For its intro- duction to the Gardens of Europe the public is obliged to . G. Graham, Esq.; the gentleman from whose seeds the Salvia fulgens figured at fol. 1356 of this work was also raised. Mr. Graham found this species in the neigh- bourhood of the mines of Tlalpuxahua, as appears from his Herbarium. The wild specimens have less elongated racemes, and the leaves are much longer than their petiole; while in the garden plant the leaves are usually about the same length as the petiole. inet * See fol. 1205. VOL. Xvi; k A suffruticose plant, about 3 feet high, with erect, branching, purple stems, which are slightly downy all over, but more so upon two of their sides than elsewhere. Leaves small for so large a plant, and compared with those of many other species, generally stained with dingy purple, ovate, simply serrated, or rather crenate, entire at the base, slightly pubescent on each side. Flowers bright purple, very handsome, about an inch long, including the calyx. This begins to flower in July, and continues in beauty till October: its flowers are not so shewy as those of S. fulgens and splendens; but the richness of their purple, and their constant succession, amply compensate for infe- riority of size. It should be planted out in the open border in May, and transferred to the greenhouse at the approach of frost; or if cuttings, by which it increases freely, are struck in the autumn, as a provision for another year, the old plant may be abandoned to its fate. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- tural Society, where it had been named by Mr. Bentham in compliment to the gentleman by whom it was discovered and introduced. The upper and under surfaces of the leaf of this species abound with spherical particles of concrete oily matter lying in depressions of the surface. We cannot, however, discover that they are secreted in sacs within the tissue of the leaf, or that there is any peculiar provision for their elaboration. The only remarkable circumstance that we have observed connected with them is, that each spherule, when placed in water and slightly bruised, discharges an Inconceivable quantity of active molecules. L 3; Lis 1371 BZ, 1371 HAYLOCKIA* pusilla. Dwarf Haylockia. HEXANDRIA MONOGY NIA. . Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDEX. HAYLOCKIA. — Flos radicalis, erectus; tubo partim subterraneo in bulbo delitente, cylindrico, fauce ampliatá ; limbo semipatente. Filamenta comniventia, extra tubum (externa breviora profundiús, interna longiora altids) inserta. Anthere biloculares, incumbentes, versatiles. Stylus unicus, erectus, stigmatibus tribus suberectis, apice recurvato. Capsula brevi pe- dunculo extrusa, brevis, trigona, trisulca, trivalvis. Semina dorso rotundato complanata, cumulata, testá nigrá, fer? ut in Zephyranthe.—Herbert. H. pusilla; folis humifusis, autumnalibus, angustissimis, sulcatis, acutis, viridibus; flore autumnali preecoci, spathá unifolià apice diviso, tubo unciali pallidé virescente, limbo unciali pallidé sulphureo, extüs maculosé 'purpurascente, intus ad basin purpura striato; laciniis undulatis, ex- ternis uncatis „3, unciæ latis, internis +5; filamentis brevibus albis, antheris aureis; stylo in tubo delitente, stigmatibus albis: gracilibus, 7; uncle longis; bulbo subrotundo, fusco, parvo.— Herbert. “ This very curious little bulb flowered at Spofforth, in the greenhouse, on the 1st of September, having been sent from the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres by Mr. Anderson, collector to Mr. Mackay, Nurseryman at Clapton, In com- pany with Habranthus Andersoni and Zephyranthes meso- chloa. It brings the western Amaryllidee near indeed to Melanthacese, With bulb, foliage, capsule, and seed, that are scarcely distinguishable from Zephyranthes, it has a flower which is nearly that of a Colchicum. Mr. Ker has stated, that Colchicum approaches to Am ryllis by ulbocodium vernum (his Colchicum bulbocodium) through Amaryllis lutea ; though he would have more properly * Mr. Herbert informs us, that he has named this genus in compliment to “ Mr. Matthew H f the collection of plants at s aylock, who has the care 0 | Spofforth ; and both Ihe, and previously at Mitcham, in the course of - ast twenty-two years, has brought no small number of plants, especially o this natural order, to blossom for the first time in this country. said through Sternbergia colchiciflora, to which. genus our plant has considerable affinity. It is necessary to premise, that we consider Amaryllis lutea to be quite distinct from Sternbergia. It is distinguished by an erect solid scape, an oval flattened germen, a tube and limb continuously funnel-shaped, and filaments conniving and inserted at equal height in the tube. It constitutes the genus Opor- anthus (Bot. Mag. 2606,* and 2636 in notá,) to which A. exigua and citrina probably belong. To those our present plant has little affinity, having no scape, the ger- men concealed in the bulb, the capsule extruded on a short peduncle, 3-lobed and 3-furrowed, the tube cylindri- cal with a widened mouth, the filaments inserted at alter- nate heights without the tube, and the style concealed in the tube. Sternbergia, including Clusiana with Colchici- flora, which is Kitaibel's type of the genus, has no scape, the tube of the flower being partly subterraneous, the stamens erect, the anthers, according to him, 4-locular (though it is difficult to credit that), the capsule oblong, subtriangular, pushed out of the ground, the seeds round and black. Never having seen the plant, we cannot state what is the insertion of the fiiaments, &c. From this genus, to which our plant is evidently allied, it differs in having a short, rounded, 3-lobed capsule, seeds flattened like those of Zephyranthes, and probably also in the insertion of the filaments, and other particulars which we know not at present accurately in Sternbergia. It belongs to a dif- ferent hemisphere, and does not flower like Sternbergia at a different season from the leaves, but its flower just precedes the leaves ; the bulbs, which do not flower, having leaves an inch and a half long at the time of flowering. Sternbergia flowers in the autumn, and pushes its leaves In spring. The stigma of Haylockia pusilla is concealed in the enlarged mouth of the tube.” — Herbert. The foregoing observations have been communicated by the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert. We are ourselves unac- quainted with the species. J. da a The spathe. b Section shewing the inside of half the flower, the style and stigma, and the insertion of the filaments. c An outer petal and stamen, coloured. d The seed-vessel. e A seed. 1372 ROSA* multiflora; var. platyphyila. The Seven Sisters’ Rose. ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacex Juss. (Introduction to the natural system, p. 81.) ROSA.—Supra, vol. 1. fol. 46. Div. Systyle. Styli in columnam elongatam coherentes. Stipulee adnate. R. multiflora ; ramulis pedunculis calycibusque tomentosis, foliolis mollibus lanceolatis rugosis, stipulis pectinatis.— Rosarum monogr. 119. R. multiflora. Supra, fol. 425, cum synonymis. 8. platyphylla; major; floribus versicoloribus. R. Grevillei. Hort. Angl. ~~ R. multiflora platyphylla. Red. ros.2. p. 69. Dec. prodr. 2. This, the most beautiful of all the climbing roses of our Gardens, is a native of China, whence it was introduced some time between 1815 and 1817. For a long period it did not flower, and little importance was attached to it. Since its splendid blossoms have been produced, it has most deservedly become a general favourite. Neverthe- less, it is not so common as might have been expected ; many Gardens, exceedingly choice in the selection of the plants they contain, being without it. This circumstance IS probably to'be explained by the young shoots being tender and liable to be destroyed by frost, in which case no flowers are produced, the blossoms being always formed upon the twigs of strong two years’ old wood. Great care should, therefore, be taken to protect the shoots by mats or straw during the winter. Our drawing was made from a. plant growing upon a . * This name is said to be derived from the Celtic rhod or rhudd, signi- fying red. south wall in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it flowered in a most beautiful manner: but the situation afterwards proved too hot for it, and the plant became sickly. An east or west wall, or open trellis- work, suits it better. It is admirably adapted, on account of its loose rambling habit, to form an ornament to an archway. The Chinese call it the Seven Sisters’ Rose, because about seven flowers open at the same time, each varying from the other from a pale rose-colour, through several gradations, to a deep rich crimson. It blossoms from May to September. J. a ; : est s Ds ey e p 22 A A: M Hart dd : “ail by. 7 Athy ira 10 y rero CL l /I io E Hin ^ 1373 PRÁTIA* begonifólia. Begonia-leaved Pratia. A | SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. Nat. ord. Loprtiacem Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of botany, p. 187.) oa : PRATIA Gaudichaud.— Calyx ovario adnatus, limbo libero quinque- dentato. Corolla subinfundibuliformis, dofso usque ad basin fisso; limbo quinquefido patente. Stamina 5;“filamenta superne in tubum connata ; anthere connate. Stigma bilobum. | Capsula calyce carnoso obtecta, - bilocularis, indehiscens ; loculis polyspermis. Herbule pusille. Caules filiformes, ramosi. Folia crassiuscula ; flores axillares, solitarii, pedunculati, pallidé roseo-violacei ; pedunculis "subbracteolatis.— Gaudich. voyage de l'Uranie; Botan. p. 456. ; P. begonifolia; foliis cordato-orbiculatis denticulatis pilosis pedunculis longioribus, ovariis pedunculisque glaberrimis. Lobelia begonifolia. Wallich in Roxb. flora indica, 2. p. 115. Herba perénnis, sempervirens. Caules prostrati, radicantes, filiformes, pilosi. Folia subcarnosa, orbiculata, cordata, denticulata, utrinque presertim subtüs pilosa, paginá inferiore sepiús discolore. Flores axillares, suni pedunculo glaberrimo petiolo paulo longiore. Ovarium oblongum, gla am rimum, carnosum, biloculare, polyspermum. . Calycis foliola lineari-subulata, equalia, corollá duplo breviora. Corolla decidua, bilabiata ; labio superiore ad basin fisso laciniis subulatis erectis ; inferiore trifido. Filamenta in Cylindrüm conniventia ; antheree connate, glabre ; duabus inferioribus apice setam ‘solitariam gerentibus. Fructus indehiscens, carnosus, bilocularis, polyspermus, calyce coronatus. A pretty little plant, found by Dr. Wallich in shady moist places in Nipal, ‘and extremely well adapted for forming neat ‚patches üpon rock. It was thus cultivated that we saw AÈ iow]. at Syon in the collection of his A | lève de * Named in honouf of M. Prat-Bernon, a young naval officer (e í la marine de première classe), who died on board the French — ship, the Urania, in the first part of her voyage. His claims to Botanical co moration are not mentioned by M. Gaudichaud. Grace the Duke of Northumberland. Mr. Forrest informs us that it bore all the rigour of last winter in a cold frame; that it was planted out upon the rockwork early in spring, and has been in blossom from April up to the period of the publication of this plate. It grows freely in a mixture of peat and loam, and roots at every joint, perfecting seeds abundantly. Some of the runners were 18 inches long. The principal difference between Pratia and Lobelia consists in the baccate fruit of the former, accompanied by the peculiar habit of the species now represented. J. Las 1374 CALCEOLÁRIA* diffása. Spreading Calceolaria. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ScrOPHULARINEZ Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of botany, p. 228.) CALCEOLARIA.—Supra, vol. 9. fol. 723. C. diffusa ; suffruticosa, procumbens, foliis cordato-ovatis grossé duplicato- serratis petiolatis oppositis ternatisve subtüs incanis, floribus terminalibus axillaribusque corymbosis. C. bicolor. Graham in Edin. new philosophical journal, Oct. 1830, p. 366: not of Flora Peruviana. r 1 : Suffruticosa ; ramis teretibus, diffusis, glabris, castaneis, ramulis pallide viridibus, levissime pubescentibus. Folia cordato-ovata, opposita v. ternata, mollia, rugosa, duplicatd grosse serrata, longé petiolata, pilosa, subtüs mcana; petiolo nunc purpurascente. Flores in corymbis terminalibus aril- laribusque dispositi ; foliis floralibus breviüs petiolatis, simpliciter serratis v. integris. Pedicelli pilosi. Sepala 4, ovata, pubescentia, inferiore an- gustiore et paulo longiore. Corolla labio superiore ovato cucullato obtuso staminibus paulo breviore; inferiore in superiorem incumbente, sed non in- volvente, apice sulphurea, basi albida, fauce barbatd. Very nearly related to Calceolaria bicolor of the Flora Peruviana, with which it has been identified by our friend Dr. Graham : but if there is to be any faith in figures or de- scriptions, it must, we think, be a distinct species. C. bicolor agrees indeed with this in the colour of its flowers; but it IS described with an erect stem, and is represented as being Very hirsute, with the lower lip remote from the upper; While this has a procumbent stem, with coarsely and doubly serrated leaves, a very little pubescent, strongly cordate, and hoary beneath, with the under lip lying close upon the Upper. * See fol. 1214. This was found at Canta, in Peru, by Mr. Crukshanks, where the authors of the Flora Peruviana say that their C. bicolor inhabits ; but we presume that that place abounds in Calceolarias, as we have specimens of two other species, for which we are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Crukshanks. A half-hardy plant, growing and flowering beautifully in the open border during the months of July, August, and September; but requiring to be taken up at the approach of the cold season, and kept in a frame during winter. Propagated both by seeds and cuttings. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- tural Society. ER. Maid A its 1375 PALÁVIA* rhombifolia. Rhomb-leaved Palavia. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. MaLvaczaz Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of botany, p. 33.) : -~ PALAVIA Cav.—Calyz nudus, 5-fidus. Carpella capsularia, mono- sperma, in capitulum absque ordine aggregata. iffert à Sida, ut Malope Malva; et à Malope ut Sida à Malva.— Dec. prodr. 1. 458. E. rhombifolia; foliis rhomboideis lobato-crenatis ad venas sparsim stellato- Pilosis pedunculo brevioribus, stipulis subulatis ciliatis viridibus, petalis Obovato-cuneatis obliqué emarginatis, caule prostrato ramoso parce stel- lato piloso.— Graham in Edin. new philosophical journal, Oct. 1830, p. 369. =a >. A native of Lima, in Peru, where seeds were collected by Mr. Crukshanks, who presented them to the Horticul- tural Society, in whose Garden the species blossomed in the open border in August, but subsequently perished without yielding seed. Dr. Graham, who obtained it at Edinburgh from the same liberal correspondent, rightly distinguishes it from alavia moschata, and describes it as follows :— . Annual? (Certainly.) Stem prostrate, branched, Sprinkled very loosely with rather rigid hairs, which are Single or stellate. Leaves-13. inch long, 14 broad, alter- nate, petioled, soft, bright green above, paler below, rhom- egg RTO * Named by Cavanilles in honour of * Don Antonio Palau and Verdera, Professor of Botany at Madrid, who has translated the PAilosophia Botanica of Linneeus into Spanish, with notes, and is now occupied with a similar labour upon the Genera et Species; of which the first volume has already appeared, containing the more recent genera and species, along with an accurate description of the plants, and their economical or officinal uses.” — avanilles in 1785, i boid, glabrous, sublobate or deeply and unequally crenate, nearly entire at the base, 5-nerved, veined, the nerves and veins prominent below, channelled above, and both above and below, but especially below, loosely sprinkled with hairs similar to those on the stem. Pefioles 1 inch long, rather shorter than the leaves, having a shallow groove along their upper surface, ciliated. — Stipule subulate, ciliate, green, spreading, connivent at the apices. Peduncles 3 inches long, solitary, axillary, longer than the leaves, loosely provided with hairs like those on the other parts of the plant, slightly tapering, jointed near the calyx, but not swollen at the joint. Flowers large, inodorous. Calyx persisting, 5-cleft, green, more hairy, both within and with- out, than any other part of the plant; tube somewhat fleshy, and lighter coloured than the cordate, ovate, acute, more membranous segments, the edges of which are com- pressed, and prominent in the bud. Corolla three times as large as the calyx, rose-coloured, veined, flat, more than two incbes across, and becoming paler when fully ex- panded.. Petals ciliated at the base.” J. L. 1370 n gm al 1376 COREOPSIS* Atkinsoniána. . we . Perennial Dyer's Coreopsis. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA. Nat. ord. Comrosit#&. .5 Corymbiferee Jussieu.—(Introduction-to the natural system of botany, p. 197.) COREOPSIS.—Supra, vol. 1. p. 7. A €. Atkinsoniana ; foliis, glaberrimis, radicalibus bipinnatifidis ; caulinis pinnatis laciniis linearibus spatulatis, flosculis radii basi seepiüs macu- E latis irregulariter 3-lobis, radice perenni. C. Atkinsoniana. Douglas. \ Perennis. | Folia atroviridia, glaberrima ; radicalia bipinnatifida, laciniis oblongo-linearibus obtusis ; caulina opposita, pinnata, laciniis lineari-spatu- latis. Involucrum | exterius, 8-pAyllum, foliolis lineari-oblongis, margine paululàm membranaceis ; interius 8-phyllum, campanulatum, foliolis ovatis, membranaceis, apice subcoloratis. - Flosculi radi. vitellini, oblongi, obtusi, inequaliter trilobi, nunc basi brunmeo maculati, nunc unicolores. Discus purpureo-brunneus. Palege receptaculi filiformes, brumnee, flosculorum longi- tudine. Ovaria compressa, marginata. Pappus 0. A native of a place called Mewries Island, in the river Columbia, where it was found growing abundantly in the year 1825. ASIAN At first sight it resembles C. tinctoria so much as to seem a slight variety ónly of that species; but upon a more exact examination, it proves very distinet in its perennial root, and tallér more branched stems, and less strongly blotched flowers. \ In the early part of the summer, when tinctoria is in perfection, this will attract but little attention; but when the. charms of the former are past away, Coreopsis Atkinsonia becomes, not indeed its rival, but a yet more interesting beauty. AA. ere E * See fol, 1228. Propagated either by division of the roots, or by seeds, which are produced abundantly. Flowers from July to November. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- tural Society, where the species had been named by Mr. Douglas in compliment to William Atkinson, Esq., of Grove End, his tried and steady friend, to whom horticul- tural architecture is under obligations that posterity will not be slow to appreciate. um A ie en c AL 1377 LUPINUS polyphyllus; var. albiflorus. White large-leaved Perennial Lupine. — ——99——— DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LecuMiNosx Juss. Tribus Phaseolese Dec. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 86.) LUPINUS.—Supra, vol. 6. fol. 457. L. polyphyllus. Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1096. B. floribus albis ; white-flowered. E This beautiful plant is a wild variety of that deep-blue Species now so common an ornament of our Gardens. It was found by Mr. Douglas in North-west America, and perpetuates itself by seeds without varying. Except in the pure white of its corolla, it differs in no respect from L. polyphyilus itself. x * See folio 1198. FOL. EVI. M 1378 PLUMÉRIA* Lambertiána. Mr. Lambert's Plumeria. —— ——— PENTANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. Avocynex Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 213.) PL UMERIA.— Supra, vol. 6. fol. 480. P. Lambertiana ; foliis oblongis acuminatis planis, corollá albo-luteà inodorá ; laciniis laté rhomboideis obtusis. : Caulis crassus, carnosus, arboreus. Folia oblonga, plana, glaberrima, utrinque acuta, sepe 8 uncias longa, 24 lata. Cyme umbellatim aggregate Super pedunculo communi petiolis longiore, primiim pube rard levissimd obsito, mox glaberrimo. Flores omnind P. bicoloris, nisi quod. sunt inodori, Paulo majores, laciniis latioribus et rotundioribus. Mr. Lambert informs us that he raised this species from Seeds sent him from Mexico by the late Mr. Cowan, and that it appears to him essentially distinct from all published Species. We know that Mr. Lambert cultivates this genus With particular care, and that the distinction of its species has been studied by him with great attention: we there- fore adopt his opinion, merely remarking, that P. bicolor, ublished at fol. 480 of this work, equally a native of €Xico, seems distinguishable only by its fragrant flowers, the segments of which are rather narrower. In this plant the blossoms are absolutely scentless. We trust that the name of Mr. Lambert having been already associated with almost every beautiful ey A Plants, will not be an objection to our attaching 1t to this Species also, which he was not only the first to bring to Perfection in England, but also to distinguish from those Most nearly related to it. sein * So i harles Plumier, a French Botanist; for some a enormen aunts 0 pr is referred to fol. 780 of this work. For an opportunity of describing and examining the original specimen from which the drawing was taken, we are indebted to the same liberal friend of science, by whom it had been carefully preserved and deposited in that cele- brated herbarium, which, created solely for the advance- ment of Botanical knowledge, at all times open, in the most unrestrained manner, to those who would consult it, has, for these reasons, conferred most essential benefit upon the science it illustrates, and has given to its pos- sessor a name that his contemporaries may envy, but which posterity will respect. A stove plant, propagated with difficulty by cuttings. Our drawing was made many years ago, from a plant that flowered at Boyton, in July. Stems thick, fleshy, arborescent. Leaves oblong, flat at the edge, quite smooth, acute at each end; often 8 inches long and 24 inches broad. Cymes collected in an umbellate manner, upon a common peduncle, which is longer than the petioles; when young, covered with a very delicate, perish- able down, afterwards becoming quite smooth. Flowers exactly those of P. bicolor, except being destitute of fragrance, and rather larger, with broader and rounder segments. J.L. 1270. SM LE 1379 POTENTILLA* argúta. Close-flowered Potentilla. ————L———— ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. E Nat. ord. Rosacrx Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 81.) POTENTILLA L.—Calycis tubus concavus, limbus 4-5-fidus, extüs 4-5-bracteolatus. Petala 4-5. Stamina 00. Carpella 00, stilo laterali donata, in receptaculo persistente exsucco capitato. Semen appensum.— — Herbae aut suffrutices, foliis compositis, stipulis petiolo adnatis, floribus albis, luteis, rariter rubris.—Dec. prodr. 2. 571. P. arguta; viscosa hirsutissima, caule erecto subsimplici, folis subin- terrupté pinnatis; foliolis rotundato - ovatis duplicató inciso-dentatis obliquis, stipulis ovatis acutis integris, floribus aggregatis subsessilibus, foliolis calycinis insequalibus oblongis “acutis, petalis obovatis calyce longioribus. Torrey’s Flora of the United States, vol. 1. p. 499, ex anglicá versus, sub P. confertiflorá. ki . confertiflora., Spreng. cur. post. p. 198... M - obliqua. Douglas in herb. nostr. | — . ferruginea. Douglas in Hort. Soc. Hort. -arguta. Pursh Fl. Am. sept. 2. 736.\ / = pennsylvanica 8. Dee. po 2. P Bo "A oottia sylvestris. Bigelow’s plants of Boston. * ; ; rs perennis, Biss Ba Herba-fóta viscosa, pube subferrugineá cta Folia radicalia plurima, erectá, pinnata, aliquando paulo interrupla, r 5-juga cum impari equali ; foliola subrotundo-ovala, inciso-serrata, basi de obliqua, inferioribus mult minoribus. Caulis tus, parüm ramosus, pedum v. bipedalis, foliorum foliolis magis elongatis minis interruptis, wenn integris v. apice dentatis. Flores racemis densis subcapitatis aggregati. Calyx campanulatus, laciniis "interioribus ovato-oblongis apes, serve i terioribus linearibus. Petala pallidé flava, obovata, calyce pau egit Stamina 20, disco pentagono carnoso inserta. Styli plurimi, carnosı, a ovario citò decidua. Achenia sicca in receptaculo exsucco. į j^ gr A native of North America. Dr. Torrey s E not uncommon on rocky hills and banks. x * So named, as it is said, in reference to the potential qualities ascribed to some species. found it about Lake Winipeg and Red River, and intro- duced it into the Garden of the Horticultural Society, where our drawing was made in August last. It is a hardy perennial, with a handsome foliage and not inelegant inflorescence. Dr. Torrey cites to this species, with a mark of doubt, the Geum agrimonoides of Pursh, said by that writer to have a white flower. We have examined the Lambertian Herbarium, in which this plant is deposited, and have re- cognised it as a species previously well known to us, which we believe, although an undoubted Potentilla, to be distinct from this. Mr. Don at the, same time pointed out the original specimen of P. arguta of Pursh, of which we think with him P. confertiflora is a synonym. The following is Dr. Torrey’s description of the plant. Root thick, fuscous ; whole plant with a dense brownish pubescence, and when young viscid. Stems numerous, about 2 feet high, terete, striate. Leaves mostly in tufts about the root, on very long petioles ; leaflets 5-7 pairs, an inch and a half or more in length, often with foliaceous bracts, or minute leaflets, at the base, coarsely and doubly serrate; the serratures rather obtuse. Flowers crowded in a terminal panicle, nearly sessile. Exterior segments of the calyx ovate-lanceolate, subincised; the interior ovate and acute. Petals yellowish-white. Stamens about 25; Jilaments inserted on the margin of a 5-lobed glandular disk, which surrounds the base of the receptacle, and is adnate to the calyx; anthers subpeltate, margined. Receptacle ovate, oblong, somewhat villous. Acines smooth and even. J.-L. 1380 J USTICL4* venusta. Beautiful Justicia. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. AcaxTHacEE Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 233.) JUSTICIA.—Supra, vol. 4. fol. 309. J. venusta; fruticosa, foliis ovatis acuminatis crenatis per petiolum late decurrentibus pubescentibus, paniculá amplissimá terminali longissime pedunculatä, floribus fasciculato-racemosis tubulosis, faucis bilabiate laciniis linearibus, antheris exsertis carnosis‘ loculis gracillimis parallelis, capsulá lineari polyspermà. Wallich plant. asiat. rarior. vol. 1. p. 53. t. 66. | Frutex 3-4-pedalis, erecta, parcissimé ramosa. Caulis digitum feré crassus, cortice cinerascente indutus. Rami breves, obsoleté quadrangulares, superne pubescentes. Folia opposita, approximata, decussatim patentissima, ovata, attenuato-acuminata, obsolete crenulata, basis lateribus rotundatis, medio attenuato, et per petiolum: decurrente, 5-7-pollicaria, membranacea, utrinque marginibusque pilis brevibus hyalinis asperula, suprà atro-viridia, oblique rugosa, subtús costá gracili, elevatá, nervis numerosis, parallelis, obliquis, interque hos venis capillaribus, transversis. Petioli 2-3-pollicares, sulcati, sursúm propter basin folii decurrentes latiuscule marginati, Panicula terminalis, lato-ovata, ramosa, patentissima, longissim? pedunculata. Pedun- culi graciles, elongati, pallidi, sulcis duobus oppositis levibus notati, pubescentid copiosá, glanduloso-capitellatá obsiti ; universalis semipedalis, pedalis, usque ad bipedalem ;“partiales semipedales ad. pedales, Jere filiformes. Bractez infra ramificationes primürias opposite, foliacee, lineari-lanceolate, polli- cares ; reliqua lineari-subulate, breves. Flores pulcherrimi, atro-purpuret, remote fasciculati, subsessiles, dispositi in racemos elongatos, graciles. a A glanduloso-pilosus, parvus, 5-fidus ; lacinice lineares, acuminate. Coro la tubulosa, tripollicaris, extüs pubescens ;-tubus gracilis, 13-pollicaris, basi pallidus, apice subventricoso-dilatatus; limbus 2-labiatus, tubo quadrupld brevior, labio superiore recto, leviterve adscendente, 2-fido ; inferiore patente, fido ; laciniis omnibus linearibus, obtusiusculis. Stamina 2, supra faucem perviam puberulam parüm elevata, glabra; filamenta capillacea, hectare : antheree oblonge, carnose, parúm divergentes, labio corolle superiore dim i breviores, anticé 2-loculares ; loculis angustissimis, gracillimis, equalibus. Capsula gracilis, pallide ferruginea, levis, linearis, subtetragona, utrinque profundé sulcata, polysperma. Semina parva, plana, ovata, minutim rugosa, —Wallich, 1. c. * See fol. 1227. “ This is one of the loveliest species of Justicia with which I am acquainted ; remarkable on account of its large and spreading inflorescence, which is lifted above the uppermost leaves by means of a long and slender common peduncle. The flowers are tubular, and of a deep-purple colour, contrasting in a very striking manner with the dark- green and large foliage. 1 had the satisfaction of bringing a growing plant to England in 1828, which was presented by the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company to the Horticultural Society of London, in whose rich garden, at Chiswick, it has lately blossomed." — Wallich, 1. c. From this collection the accompanying drawing was taken in September last. It flowers beautifully in the stove, and is readily propagated by cuttings. A native of the Pundua mountains, on the eastern frontier of Bengal. : ^ B P 1381 LOPHOSPERMUM* erubescens. Blushing Lophospermum. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. ScroPHuLARINEE Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 228.) LOPHOSP ERMUM.—Calyz 5-partitus. Corolla campanulata: limbo 5-lobo subsquali. Capsula bilocularis, irregulariter dehiscens. Semina imbricata, membranaceo-alata. D. Don in Linn. trans. vol. 15. p. 350. L. erubescens ; foliis triangulari-cordatis grossé ineequaliterque serratis pu- bescentibus, calycis segmentis oblongis mucronulatis, filamentis simpli- cibus. D. Don in the British flower-garden, t. 75, in notá. L.scandens. Bot. mag. tt. 3037, 3238. British flower-garden, t. 68. Caulis basi fruticosus, teres, volubilis, glanduloso-pilosus, ramosus. F olia opposita, villosa, triangulari-cordata, dentata, apice integra, tactu mollia, petiolis sepiüs cirrhi officio functis, spiraliter convolutis, Racemi ter- minales, multiflori, bracteis, foliis: conformibus, alternis, valde glanduloso- hirtis, Calyx pentaphyllus ; sepalis ovatis, acutis, integerrimis, pubescenti- bus, apice rubescentibus. Corolla 3 uncias longa, infundibularis, subareuata, amené rosea, glanduloso-pilosa, limbo subbilabiato recto : laciniis oblongis, obtusis, subaequalibus, inferiore tantüm minore, tubo intús villis luteis, antice bicristato, roseo guttato demim ad basin evanescente. Stamina didynama, versis basin tubi inserta, rudimento minimo quinti, filamentis pubescentibus, antherarum loculis glabris divaricatis. Ovarium villosum, biloculare. Stylus basi pubescens. Stigma inequaliter bifidum. Capsula subrotunda, mucro- nata, calyce persistente inclusa, bilocularis, polysperma., . Semina mem- branaceo-alata, tuberculosa, fere ut in Eecremocarpo scabro, sed longe minora, et inequaliter lobata. ` | i T This very handsome frutescent climber is a native of exico, whence seeds were obtained by several individuals about the same time. It grows most luxuriantly during the summer, trained to a wall or-treillage, and requires exactly the same treatment as Eccremocarpus scaber ; r ¥ * So named by Mr. Don, from Acges, a crest, and ewígua, a seed; because the seeds have a winged or crested margin. à namely, to be protected during winter so securely from frost, that the woody stems may be preserved, to push forth new flowering branches the succeeding year. It increases so readily by cuttings, that it will soon be very common. Our drawing was made in the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co., of Fulham, in August last. It was at first supposed to be the same as the Lopho- spermum scandens; but Mr. Don, having lately compared the garden plant with the original in Mr. Lambert's Her- barium, has ascertained it to be a new species. J. L. NOTE. We avail ourselves of this opportunity of offering a remark or two regarding a criticism upon this and other Botanical periodical works, which has been made in the Gardener's Magazine, and, having been repeated more than once, seems to require some notice. It is said, that it is the practice of the editors of these works to publish the same plant one after another; so that a purchaser is obliged to pay repeatedly for the same thing. To this we should plead guilty, in common with our brethren, and promise to amend our conduct for the future, if we agreed with our critics that the public really sus- tained any injury. A little explanation, however, will perhaps shew, first, that so much evil does not arise from occasional repetitions of the same plant in different works, as is alleged ; and secondly, that they cannot be always avoided. E Circumstances of this kind take place in various ways. Some- times two rival publications, each eager for priority, contain the same lant on the same day, or a month earlier or later than each other. uch a case would obviously arise from mere accident, against which neither party could guard, unless the editors were mutually acquainted with each other's materials, which is not the case. At another time, they may be caused by a drawin having been made for one work before it was known that others had it in their possession. After this expense has been incurred, the proprietors have to consider whether they will suffer loss by not publishing the drawing that has been prepared, or whether they are, nevertheless, justified in letting it appear. The determination of this point always rests, we presume, with the editor, who exercises his judgment in the matter, and who, in fact, does cancel a considerable number of drawings. We re- member hearing the late venerable editor of the Botanical Magazine complain of the large number of losses of this sort his wor had sustained; and the proprietors of the Botanical Register have cer- tainly no cause to congratulate themselves upon exemption from such. Finally, repetitions may arise from inadvertence; and then they become part of those errors to which all are liable, and which are carried to the account between the editor and the public. We have said thus much, as if the degree of public inconvenience which is assumed had been proved to exist. To do this, it must be shewn that a greater number of persons purchase all the periodical publica- tions to which the charges in question refer, than a part, — one, for example, only. We strongly suspect that this would not only not appear upon investigation, but that exactly the reverse would prove to be the fact; namely, that by far the greater number of purchasers of one Botanical periodical possess that alone: that such is the case to a great extent, we certainly know. Now, in the latter point of view, what at first appeared a hardship becomes a positive advantage ; and hesitation on the part of A to publish that which the work of B previously contained, would be an injustice to the subscribers to A; because it would have the effect of obliging the possessors of A's work to procure B's also,— an excellent arrangement for the booksellers, but not quite so advantageous to the public. We have been tempted to make these remarks, not because we feel that the conduct of the Botanical Register requires justification, but because we think that the public has a right to expect explanations upon public matters, from those who look to the public for support. J. L. ^ jd 2. v =- P- a > /z 5 ` ed T 24 DOF A fp M. Ham. LEA Pub Ly Fa Idg may VL Y Tucodidty Im. f. IT, X Maitas “i 4 > gi . 1382 SPHACELE* campanulata. Campanulate Sphacele. DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. LABrATE Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 239.) foe SPHA CELE Bentham.— Calyx campanulatus, subeequalis, 13-15-nervius, venosus, 5-dentatus, intus fauce nuda. Corolla tubo exsertd, fauce sub- inflata, bilabiata, labiis subeequalibus, superiori erecto bifido vel emarginato subplano, inferiori patente trifido. Stamina 4, sub labio superiori adscen- dentia, Anthere biloculares, loculis linearibus divergentibus. Stylus apice subeequaliter bifidus. Achenia sicca, levia. — Benth. in bot. mag. fol. 2993. S. campanulata ; ramis cano-pubescentibus, foliis subsessilibus oblongis basi angustatis subtüs cano-tomentosis, axillis utrinque unifloris, corollis cam- panulatis. Bentham MSS. S. campanulata. Bentham in bot. reg. fol. 1289. in textu. Frutex ramis divaricatis, subteretibus, junioribus cano-tomentosis. Folia parva, oblonga v. oblongo-linearia, obtusa, crenata, rugosa, basi in petiolum brevem angustata ; floralia calyce breviora. Flores subsecundi, oppositi, breviter pedicellati. Calyx campanulatus, glaber, venosus, dentibus sub- equalibus acutis. Corolla campanulata, calyce vix dupli longior, glabra, pallide cerulea, fauce valde inflatá, limbi lobis brevibus suberectis, labio superiore bifido, inferiore 3-fido, lobo medio emarginato. Bentham MSS. This shrub is a native of Chile, where it is probably far rom uncommon. At what period it was first introduced to Europe, is uncertain. The plant from which our drawing Was taken had been raised in the Garden of the Horticul- tural Society, from seeds collected by Mr. M'Rae near Valparaiso, in 1825; but we have in our possession a cul- tivated specimen, from the herbarium of the late Mr. James Down, of Cambridge, which marks its presence in England at least twenty years ago. i or mortification, is a name that apparently because of the best known to them, S. odern Greek ; a seeming * 3Qáxos, Or rOáxshos, literally gangrene, was sometimes given by the Greeks to the Sage, galls, or tumours, so common upon the species Pomifera. This species is still called ParzounAie in m Corruption of rPanouidMo, It is a neat, rather handsome species when in flower. It is too tender to be left all winter without protection, but grows freely out of doors in the summer, flowering in J uly and August. Propagated by cuttings. A shrub with divaricate, nearly taper, branches, which, when young, are hoary and downy. Leaves small, oblong or oblong-linear, obtuse, crenated, rugose, tapering at the base to a short petiole; the floral ones shorter than the calyx. Flowers somewhat secund, opposite, on short pe- dicels. Calyx campanulate, smooth, veiny, with nearly equal acute teeth. Corolla campanulate, scarcely twice as long as the calyx, smooth, pale blue, the throat very much inflated, the lobes of the limb short, nearly erect, the upper lip bifid, the lower trifid, with the middle lobe emarginate. - J. L. 1383.) f, r 2 te Hai de 7 7 AS 37 > e din 5 at P. IL, e Dis AMI S | "D y G E SANS 727 " ( 1 . Af, yt Y dede by I Mugu OY Ul M Hait ad " 1383 GREVILLE 4* concinna. Neat Grevillea. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PRoTEACEZ Jussieu.— (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 68.) GREVILLEA.—Supra, vol. 6. fol. 443. G. concinna ; foliis linearibus indivisis (fruticis juvenilis passim trifidis pinna- tifidisve) margine revolutis: adultis super glabratis; subter ramisque sericeis pilis appressis, racemis recurvis secundis multifloris, stylis gla- berrimis perianthio sericeo: duplo longioribus, stigmate dilatato planius- culo obliquo. R. Brown suppl. prim. prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 18. G. concinna. R. Brown prodr; 1. p. 377." Sweet Flora australasica, t. 7. , Frutex, ramis cinereo-tomentosis, parúm angulatis. Folia linearia, mar- Jne revoluta, mucronulata, sepids indivisa, nunc apice bifida v. trifida, (in plantá juniore 3-5-partita), suprà primüm villosa, subinde pilis raris obsita, demim glabra, subtüs dense pilosa. Racemi pedunculati, tomentosi, secundi, recurvi. Calyces rosei, extús sericei, intús impubes. Glandula hypogyna pateriformis. Ovarium villosum; stylus glaber, apicalis, calyce triplo iore. A native of the neighbourhood of Lucky Bay, on the south-western coast of New Holland, and of Lewin's Land, growing in barren places. It has been some years intro- duced to this country, and is now occasionally observed in collections of greenhouse plants. It is not particularly distinguished for its beauty. Our drawing was made in Mr. Colvill’s N ursery, in May last. . This plant varies very much in the degree of division of lts foliage, the leaves being on the old branches either entirely or very nearly undivided, and on the young plant Pinnatifid; a difference so striking, that a person unac- "iE E * See fol, 1319. quainted with the circumstance would scarcely believe specimens in these two states to belong to the same species. The figure above quoted in the Flora Australasica, and the accompanying plate, represent these two extremes. A shrub, with hoary branches, very slightly angular. Leaves linear, revolute at the edge, with a small mucro, generally undivided, sometimes bifid or trifid at the point ; on the upper side villous at first, afterwards clothed with scattered hairs, and finally quite smooth; on the under side clothed with dense hairs. Racemes pedunculate, downy, one-sided, recurved. Calyces rose-coloured, silky externally, destitute of down internally. The hypogynous gland pateri- form. Ovarium villous; style smooth, arising from the end of it, three times as long as the calyx. | J. L. N Y 1384 BROWALLI4* grandiflóra. Large-flowered Browallia. DIDYNAMIA GY MNOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. SoLaNzza Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 231.) BROWALLIA L.— Calyx tubulosus quinquefidus. Corolla hypocra- teriformis; tubo calycem multd superante apice inflato; limbo plano quin- quepartito subeequali: lacini superiore (?) pauló majore. Stamina 4, didynama, inclusa. Stigma subquadrilobum. Capsula bilocularis bivalvis: valvis apice bifidis : dissepimento valvis parallelo demúm libero : placentis adnatis, Herbee alternifolie, érecte. Flores axillares, aut terminales, cerulei, violacei, rariüs albi.—Kunth synops. 2. 129, B. grandiflora; caule difuso ramoso, foliis (cordatis) ovatis aeutis, pe- dunculis axillaribus unifloris v. in racemis terminalibus dispositis, ramulis calycibusque adultis glabris.— Graham in Jamieson's journal, Dec. 1830. Annua. Caules diffusi, teretes, ramosi. Folia alterna, breve petiolata, Cordata, ovata, obscuro-viridia. ^ Racemi secundi, terminales, pauciflori, pedunculis ebracteatis, pubescentibus. Calyx oblongus, 5-plicatus, 5-dentatus, pallidus, dentibus et costis atroviridibus. Corolla calyce duplo longior, tubo gracili filiformi luteo-purpureo apice ampliato, limbo plicato 5-lobo, sub- equals, paululàm obliquo : laciniis emarginatis, primüm pallide ceruleo, mox albo, fauce luted. Stamina didynama; superiora arcuata faucem corolle claudentia: filamentis. latis, planis, pubescentibus. - Anthere lobis Subrotundis, altero sepids deficiente. Discus magnus, carnosus, cyathiformis, ovarii dimidiam attingens. Ovarium biloculare, placentá centrali, carnosá, Polyspermá. Stylus filiformis, corrugatus. Stigma quadratum, dilatatum, Subcucullatum, suprà foveolis duabus altis impressum. A beautiful little plant, apparently annual, and perhaps to be preserved by cuttings; atleast this is to be hoped, as it has not yet yielded seed in this country. It is a native of Yazo, in Peru, where it was discovered by "exce CO, MEME * ** Named by Linnzus in honour of John Browallius, Bishop of Abo, who defended the sexual system against Siegesbeck, in a book entitled Examen Epicriseos, &c., Alo, 1739, 8vo."— Loudon's Enc. of Plants, p. 532. VOL. XVI. N Mr. Cruckshanks, who presented seed of it to the Horti- cultural Society, in whose Garden it flowered from July to November last. . The plants of it that were. placed in the open ground suffered so much from the constant rain and gloom, that they scarcely opened their flowers; but the in- dividuals in the greenhouse were covered with a constant succession of blossoms, producing a very pleasing effect by their changeable hues, varying from pale pure blue to white, with a deep yellow eye. Most Botanists refer Browallia to Scrophularinee ; an error which Mr. Don has corrected in Jamieson’s Journal, without, however, noticing the remarkably large disk in which the ovarium is placed: Neither does Professor Graham, in his elaborate description of the species, advert. to this point of structure, which is, nevertheless, very re- markable. We agree entirely with Dr. Graham in the fact that there is a frequent tendency to the abortion of one of the cells of the uppermost anthers; such was the case in a great many flowers that we examined. The following explanations will render the analysis of the flower in the accompanying figure more intelligible :— l. Is a view of the upper part of the tube of the corolla, the limb of which has been cut away ; it shews the position of the stamens. 2. Is one of the upper stamens, with one cell of the anther imperfect. 3. Represents one of the lower stamens ; in this the filament is much more slender than in the other. 4. Represents the style and great dilated stigma. 5. Is a view of the ovarium, seated in its cup- Shaped disk. 6. Is a view of a transverse section of the ovarium, shewing the ovules and their placentation. Jo LY c 1777 UY . j rT AL ly WOM ! OG / à Leo n I Lf, Sb 1385 ANEMÖNE* vitifólia. Vine-leaved Anemone. POLYANDRIA POLYGY NIA. Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEZ Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 6.) ANEMONE.—Supra, vol. 3. fol. 200. A. vitifolia ; foliis rotundato-cordatis, 5-7-lobis, subtüs cauleque adpressé lanuginosis, radicalibus longé petiolatis; involucellis subsessilibus tri- fidis; sepalis ovalibus extüs sericeis; pistillis superne glabris; caryo- psidibus pedicellatis, muticis, densissimé lanuginosis.— Wall. MSS. A. vitifolia. Buchanan apud Decand. syst. nat. 1. p. 211. Ejusd. prodr. 1.9: ZT, Herba erecta, parce ramosa, 2-3-pedalis, basi suffruticosa, dum junior lanugine candidá, adpressá dense vestita, etate glabrior. Radix perpen- dicularis, subfusiformis, ferà lignosa, fibrillosa, vestigiis frequentibus aridis basium petiolorum squamata. . Caulis sepius unicus, nunc duo tresve, teres, bis terve subdichotomé divisus, basi pennam cygneam, quin digitum minimum Crassus, superne attenuatus, ramique erecti, elongati, graciles, nudi, villis longis, adpressis, subdeciduis obsiti. Folia radicalia plura, erecta, long? petiolata, palmaria, circumscriptione orbiculato-cordata, 5-7-loba, lobis in- equalibus, acutis, nunc obtusis, inciso- et cuspidato-denticulatis, basis magnis rotundatis, conniventibus, supra nitida, fer? glabra, saturate viridia, parüm bullata, subtüs niveo-tomentosa, vel lanuginosa, multinervia, grosse et pro- minenter reticulato-venosa ; caulina infrà divisuras subverticillata, involu- criformia, patentia, breve petiolata, vel subsessilia, inaequalia, 5-pollicaria, 3-5-loba, lobis ovatis, subacuminatis. Petioli canaliculati, basi dilatatá amplexantes; radicales graciles, pedales, sesquipedalesve. Pedunculi ter- minales, teretes, erecti, cylindrici, villosi, sepids tres, aliquando plures, quorum medii trifidi, medio involucellati, triflori, reliqui uniflori, 3-5-polli- cares, fructiferi longiores. Involucellum constans foliolis pollicaribus, subsessilibus, trifidis, serratis. Flores magni, patentissimi, diametro fere 2-pollicari, ex albo dilutissimà flavescentes, extüs sericeo-villosi, pallide violacei. Alabastra globosa, valdé sericea. Sepala sez, interdim octo, ovalia, obtusa, fere pollicaria, patentissima, subequalia, bases interiorum leviter * Anemone, or áo», literally signifies wind-flower, from drupos, wind. Its origin, they say, was from the tears of Venus ; Alua jodov rieres, và De daxgua ta» vue; (from her blood sprung the Rose; from her tears the Anemone.) The plant of the ancients was the modern Anemone coronaria. contracte. Stamina numerosa, glabra, brevissima, patenti-adscendentia. Pistilla copiosissima, acuta, superné glabra, villosa. Caryopsides minute, compresse, capillaceo-pedicellate, mutice, lanugine longá, nived obtecte globumque formentes album magnitudinis cerasi.— Wallich. * This is one of the commonest, as well as most orna- mental flower-plants in Nipal, where it grows in all the forests of the great valley and the surrounding mountains, delighting in the most shady, retired, and moist situations, in the vicinity of rills and torrents. It has also been found in Kamoon, in similar places, by Robert Blinkworth, one of the collectors for the Honourable Company's Botanic Garden, at Calcutta. It blossoms in the months of August and September, and ripens its fruit soon after. 1 have never been able to induce it to grow large, much less to flower, in the Calcutta Garden ; a circumstance by no means to be wondered at, considering the high elevations of which itisa native, and the extreme difficulties which we have in Lower India in reducing the temperature of the air. Indeed, the plant is altogether extra-tropical; and my people brought it to me from towards Gossain-Than, in the Himalaya. I had the satisfaction to see this charming plant in flower at Montreal, in Kent, the seat of the Earl Amherst, whither it had been brought from India by the Countess Amherst, whose indefatigable and successful exertions in her favourite pursuit of Horticulture and Botany, are as far beyond my feeble praise, as they exceed any other instance I have ever witnessed." . For the foregoing remarks we are indebted to Dr. Wal- lich; for the specimen from which our drawing was made, we have to express our acknowledgments to the Countess Amherst. J. L. 1266 1386 CUPHEA* Llávea: : Mexican Two-petalled Cuphea. —Ó ———— DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. SaLICARIE Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 59.) Jis; CUPHEA.—Supra, vol. 3. fol. 182. vo E - $ 2. Loxcirronz, caulibus herbaceis aut vix suffruticosis, floribus alaribus fere racemoso-spicatis, calycibus longè tubulosis basi ferè cal- ms nec tantüm gibbosis, petalis minimis aut nullis.—Dec. prodr. . 84. C. Liavea ; caulibus plurimis hispidulis, ramis ascendentibus, foliis subses- silibus ovato-lanceolatis strigosis, pedicellis interfoliaceis erectis, petalis 2 obovatis magnis, ceteris abortivis, staminibus 11.— Dec. l. c. p. 85, no. 13. C. Llavea. La Llave et Lexarsa novorum vegetabilium descriptiones fasc. I p. WU Herbacea, perennis; caules plurimi, erecti, teretes, tactu scabriusculi, sesquipedales. Folia opposita, ovato-lanceolata, integerrima, utrinque acu- minata, scabra. Racemi breves, pauciflore, interpetiolares, erecte. Calyx villosus, viridis, basi gibbosus, apice obliquus, purpureus, 6-dentatus, inflatus. Petala duo oblonga, atropurpurea, undulata, unguiculata ; 4 minima nunc deficientia. Stamina sepiüs undena, nunc duodena, filamentis pilosis, longiori- bus exsertis. A native of the mountains of central Mexico, in the neighbourhood of Valladolid, the capital of the province of Mechoacan, where it was originally discovered by La Llave, flowering in March and April. 1t was- introduced to this country by Mr. Ackermann, who presented its seeds to Mr. Tate, in whose Nursery it flowered in August last. It is a herbaceous plant, scarcely hardy enough to bear * So named from xvfos, curved, or swelled; in allusion to the pro- tuberance at the base of the calyx. our winters, but requiring nothing more than the protec- tion of a frame in winter. It is more interesting than beautiful. The petals of the Garden plant are darker-coloured than they are described by its original discoverer, who calls them di/uté coccinea. Stems numerous, erect, taper, rough to the touch, a foot and a half high. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, tapering to both ends, scabrous. Racemes short, few-flowered, from between the petioles, erect. Calyx vil- lous, green, gibbous at the base, oblique at the apex, and purple, 6-toothed, and inflated. Two petals oblong, deep purple, wavy, unguiculate; four others very small, some- times wanting. Stamens often 11, sometimes 12, with hairy filaments, the longest of which are exserted. J. L. 1387 z POTENTILLA* Hopwoodiána. Hopwood's Hybrid Cinquefoil. ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacez Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 81.) POTENTILLA.—Supra, vol. 16. fol. 1379. GARDEN VARIETY. This plant is said to have been raised between P. na- palensis and P. recta. Considering how little dependence is to be placed upon the names of species in many Gar- dens, we by no means vouch for the latter parentage ; the former is, we believe, undoubted. It appeared to us, from specimens communicated by the Comte de Vandes, to be a very pretty plant ; on which account we have given it a place in this work. In publishing this we deviate from our usual practice, in neither ascribing to it a specific character, by which it may stand recorded in the works of systematic Botanists, nor even referring it to the station it should occupy in a classification of species. Upon this subject it is necessary that some explanation should be given. It has long been apparent to us, that numerous varieties which the industry and skill of modern Gardeners have been, it may almost be said, creating by the intermixture of the pollen of nearly allied species, while they have, in many cases, added greatly to the beauty of the Flower- Garden, have been gradually tending, in a most incon- venient degree, to embarrass the systematic Botanist. So long as cases of this kind were few in number, the * See fol. 1379. inconvenience was overlooked, and the varieties themselves neglected in works of science. By degrees, however, the repeated production of hybrid plants by artificial means caused attention to be paid to them; and, while some naturalists adopted the ingenious proposition of Mr. Herbert, in the Horticultural Transactions, to. designate them by names as compound as their own nature, others, as M. Decandolle, unscrupulously admitted them as legiti- mate species into enumerations of the natural productions ofthe globe. The latter, however, was soon found out to be inconvenient in the highest degree, loading works of science with the records of forms so fleeting that they had, in some cases, passed away before the book that recorded them had issued from the press; and in more permanent cases, breaking down the distinctions of natural species for the sake of plants, in the creation of which wild nature had no more share than in that of the mule itself, or of the various races of domestic dogs or fowls. No doubt from a feeling of the absurdity of thus con- founding Horticulture with pure Natural History, Mr. Loudon, in his Encyclopedia of Plants, rejected, in the case of the Rose and the Pelargonium, ‘all artificially created forms from the domain of science, placing them apart, under the name of Garden Varieties; a plan ex- tremely well adapted to distinguishing between the limits of Horticulture and Botany, and answering every purpose that the student of the one can require, without inter- fering with the arrangements of the investigators of naturally created beings. To this plan we propose to adhere with the commencement of a new volume. We have always been anxious to figure remarkable varieties of handsome plants, and we mean to cohtinue the practice; but, instead of referring them with doubt and difficulty to Natural species, we propose henceforth to designate them, like this one, by the particular title of Garden Variety, in order that the compilers of Species Plantarum may no longer be led into incorporating such ephemeral productions with their lists of the genuine productions of nature. TY Me Lo 4c lala 7. be C. : by . 1388 LÁTHYRUS* tingitánus. The Tangier Pea. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LecvwriNos x Juss. (Introduetion to the natural system of Botany, p. 86.) ; : ! LATH Y RUS.—Suprà, vol. 14. fol. 1144. - $ 2. Annui; pedunculis 1-3-floris. ** Foliis unijugis. L. tingitanus; glaberrimus, caulibus diffusis alatis, foliolis ovatis obtusis mucronulatis, stipulis semisagittato-ovatis petiolo multo brevioribus, pedunculis bifloris folio longioribus, dentibus calycinis subzequalibus tubo brevioribus, leguminibus oblongo-linearibus leviter reticulatis com- pressis torulosis, suturis erassis, seminibus (subquadratis fusco-nebulosis). —Decand. prodr. 2.374... == L. tingitanus. "Zinn. sp. pl. 1032. Desf. atl. 2. 160. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1084. Curt. bot. mag. 100. x : L. tingitanus siliquis orobi, flore amplo ruberrimo.— Moris hist. 2. p. 55. While wé are every where ransacking nature for new objects of cultivation, and searching in the most remote corners of the globe for flowers and fruits to delight our senses, we are too apt to neglect the old inhabitants of our Gardens, which are at least as beautiful as the new comers. How seldom we now see the Helleborus niger, the Rose of Christmas; in how little estimation are held the old varie- ties of Crocus, Fritillaria, and Colchicum ; and even the rich varieties of Tagetes are fast fading from remembrance. This should not be so; óur-Gardens are capacious enough, and our tastes sufficiently varied, to render every really handsome plant worth preservation *-and when we see an old discarded favourite make its appearance after a short * Nothing certain is known of the origin of this word. The Ad9ugos of Theophrastus appears to have been Lathyrus sativus. retreat, we hail it with more delight than the most gaudy flowers of fashion of the day. Such a one is the Tangier Pea, hardy in constitution, beautiful in form, rich in colour, admirably adapted for every purpose to which a climbing plant is useful, an inhabitánt of our Gardens a hundred and fifty years ago, but never now to be seen. For this reason we reproduce it, from a specimen growing in the Garden of the Horticultural Society in 1830, where its natural hardihood of character enabled it to brave in se- curity a season that was fatal to many of the beauties of India, Mexico, and North-western America. A native of Barbary. J. L. Y 1389 ROSA Ruga. The Ruga Rose. — di Ó—À x ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosaczx Jussieu, (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 81.) ROSA.—Supra, vol. 1. fol. 53. GARDEN VARIETY. This beautiful variety is said to have been raised between R. arvensis and the Sweet-scented Chinese Rose. It was sent from Italy to the Horticultural Society by Mr. Clare. As a Garden plant, it is one of the most valuable that we are acquainted with ; it produces the long straggling shoots of R. arvensis, which are, however, without the debility of that species, having gained all the vigour of the Chinese parent. They will sometimes grow 10 or 12 feet in a year, and are therefore particularly well adapted to scrambling over old pales, or to covering any other place in which a wildness of appearance is desirable. The leaves are a little stained with dull purple, a colour deeply fixed in the . Stem, and are as nearly as possible intermediate in form and texture between R. indica and arvensis, but are scarcely evergreen. "The blossoms grow in bunches, are of the size of the Sweet-scented Chinese Rose, and fully as fragrant ; in colour they are rather deeper, especially before being fully expanded, when they approach the tint of the charm- ing variety known in the Gardens under the name of the Double Hip. Very readily increased by cuttings. i { J. L. 1390 LOÁSA* ambrósizefólia. Ambrosia-leaved Lost. elei it POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, or POLYANDRIA MONOGYN1A. Nat. ord. LoasEx Jussieu.—(Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 58.) LOASA.—Supra, vol. 8. fol. 667. L. ambrosiefolia ; foliis alternis petiolatis bipinnatifidis, lobis lobulisque subobtusis, pedicellis extra-axillaribus, lobis calycis lanceolato-linearibus acutis petalis brevioribus.—Decand. prodr, 3. 342, L. ambrosizefolia, Juss. in ann. mus. 5. t. 4. fol. 1. L. hispida. Graham in Jamieson's journal, Oct. 1830, p. 369. Annua. Caulis erectus, rigidus, teres, pallide viridis, ramosus, undique pilis rigidis urentibus, subdeflexis, fuscis vestitus. Folia alterna, bipinna- tifida, hispida, lobis planis, valde inequalibus, obtusis, nunc dentatis. Pedi- celli hispidi, extra-axillares, versüs fastigium caulis provenientes ; unciam et dimidiam longi. Flores mutantes, flavi, diametro fero 2-unciali. Ovarium uniloculare, hispidissimum, turbinatum. Sepala reflexa, ovata, obtusa, pubescentia. Petala reflexa, unguiculata, cucullata, sagittata, pubescentia, sepalis multúm longiora, Squamee. exteriores inflate, valde gibbose, ob- cordate, fauce plane ; intra hos adsunt squamule decem subulate, pubescentes, per paria squamis opposita, stamina sterilia simulantes. Stamina in- definita, inaequalia, intra cavitates petalorum recondita. Stylus teres, pilosus ; stigmata simplicia; ovula placentis tribus parietalibus affixa.. Semina parva, oblonga, brunnea, minute undique. tuberculata, testa molli, nucleo oblongo, embryone in axi albuminis carnosi, arillo nullo. A For the introduction of this very beautiful new annual we are indebted to Mr. Cruckshanks, who gathered it near Lima. From seeds presented by this gentleman to the Horticultural Society the plant was raised from which our figure was taken. It was placed on the south side of a yew hedge in the Garden of the Society, where it grew vigorously, attaining a height of about 24 feet, flowering * A word of unknown derivation. from July to September, and producing seed freely. It perished at the first approach of frost. It is with much regret that we find ourselves obliged to differ from our valued friend Professor Graham, in the name to be assigned to this species. It may be very true that it is the L. hispida of Linnzus, although it would seem, from M. Decandolle's Prodromus, that that plant is at least a well-marked variety of this; but, admitting it to be the L. hispida itself, it appears to us that, however sacred the law of priority of names may be, yet this is one of those cases in which it is not only justifiable, but even necessary to depart from it. Linnæus knew but one Loasa, and he naturally enough called it hispida; but surely when twenty species have been discovered, all hispid, many as much so as the original, and some more so, it is better to adopt the name proposed by the first Botanist that described the genus with any sort of accuracy, rather than that of a naturalist whose appellation would never have been applied had he known but a little more of the genus. The Swedish Botanist himself made no scruple of treating his predecessors or even contemporaries thus; and we submit, with great deference to those who hold a con: trary opinion, that there is no such magic in the name of Linneus, at the present day, as to exempt his nomen- clature from a similar castigation. L. ambrosiefolia itself is not perhaps the very best name that could have been contrived, but it involves no absurdity. It might also perhaps be urged, not without reason, that more inconvenience would be now found in reverting to the forgotten name of Linneus than in adhering to the more recent one of Jussieu, which has been generally adopted by succeeding Botanists. J. L. 4 4 7t ^ del Filet yL. A LA E I UJ 76g cca au Feb I 7037, A HF AAL. Be 1391 SÉDUM* Cepza. Panicled Stonecrop. DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. CrassuLace® Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 161.) , SEDUM.—Supra, vol. 2, fol. 142. ** Planifolia, floribus albis, rubris, aut ceruleis. Dec. prodr. 3. 402. S. Cepea ; caule herbaceo terete pubescente, foliis planis integerrimis, infimis subspatulatis, superioribus oblongis linearibusve, floribus pani- culatis, petalis in acumen aristatum desinentibus.— Dec. l. c. 404. S. Cepeea. Linn: species pl. 617. S. paniculatum. Lamarck sec. Decand. S. galioides. Allioni ped. t. 65. f. 3. : . S. spatulatum. Waldst. et Kitaib. 2. p. 108. t. 104. Varr. sec. Decan- S. tetraphyllum, Smith prodr. fl. Grec. 1. 309. dollium. S. alsinefolium. Allioni ped. t. 22. f. 2. Anacampseros Cepea. ` Haworth. A very common plant in the south of Europe, where it assumes different appearances according to the situations in which it grows; from these the several erroneous species. above noticed, after Decandolle, have been formed. Under its common appearance it is found every where upon stones, rocks, and walls, on all the northern coast of the basin of the Mediterranean. It appears under the form of S .-alsinefolium in shady places in Piedmont, on the moun- tains-of Roaschia and elsewhere ; as S. galioides in Pied-. mont ahd Corsica; as S. spatulatum. in the south of Hungary; and as S. tetraphyllum in hot places in the Morea. It is particularly variable in the degree of length E. = Said to have-been-so named 4 semper sedendo, because it is always seated, as it were, upon stones, &c. This Cepwa is the xaraia of the Greeks, according to some. of its leaves, and in their situation upon the stem. Mr. Bentham has remarked, in his Critical Catalogue of the Plants of the Pyrenees, that the upper leaves are almost always verticillate, and that very often they are all so. We are chiefly induced to give a figure of this species from no representation of it having yet found its way into any English work. It is an annual, and very well adapted to ornamenting rock-work : it also grows. well in the common border. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it had been received from a continental Botanic Garden, under the erroneous name of S. Guet- tardi. E A GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX VOLUMES II. AND I. TO OF THE NEW SERIES. Folium Acacia uncinata --.+...---=--- —— (cq "d Acacia albida--------------- NARRO 1317 Acacia lunata -----..----+* POS E . 1352 Aczena pinnatifida --+++++--++sersserreererere 1271 Adenotrichia amplexicaulis -...-+.+..»....... 1190 Agave geminiflora «6n 1145 Amaryllis acuminata, var. longipedunculata -- 1188 Amaryllis coranica, var. pallida ----- eo ota e+» 1219 Amaryllis intermedia --+--........+ 1148 Amelanchier sanguinea --------+++- 1171 Amygdalus communis, var. macrocarpa - 1160 Anemone vitifolia ----. ee 1385 Anomatheca cruenta -+-...... cen. 1369 Anona laurifolia ---+--- A 1328 Antholyza sethiopica, var. minor------ . 1159 Argemone grandiflora:--.**:.. eeenen. 1264 Argemone OChroleuca ::* 88$ 1343 Astragalus succulentus -««---e8 1324 Azalea calendulacea, var. subcuprea --...-.-..+* 1366 Azalea nudiflora, var. thyrsiflora» --..+.......+ 1367 Azalea pontica, var. sinensis -............* wore. EN Banksia littoralis ------- mme 1363 Banksia undulata---:«s22 inert 1316 Bauhinia cumanensis ----..... ttm 1133 Begonia villosa -+---.--------.-- VOV. MS Berberis repens-------------> TEE LAT 1176 [cms eevee WSCC es vee A AS 1301 Billbergia pyramidalis, var. bicolor---+-------- 1181 Blackwellia padiflora -------.e seen ner - 1308 Brodima grandiflora «I8 1183 Browallia grandiflora +--+.+- «+=» 0868 1384 Brunsvigia ciliaris ---+--...+======...** ease 1153 Brunsvigia grandiflora --+-»+- 88 1335 Buddlea heterophylla -----+-++==+==.....=....* 1259 Cactus Ackermandi---.... +. .o.oomom.mo...” 1321 Calandrinia grandiflora ---------- BE SERIE 1194 Calathea grandifolia -------- aksies CEPIS 1210 Calceo diffusa ------- Qo Adis ra eo TEN 1374 Calceolaria Herbertiana ----. ===... ....* 1313 Calceolaria ascendens -..««--e m 1215 Calceolaria floribunda .--.««: 88 1214 Calochortus macrocarpus + +++ rer nennen. 1152 Camellia japonica, var. punctata--+..........* 1267 Canavalia bonariensis- ----- 1199 Canna discolor -+-+-+++- ont Hé 1231 — Achiras ---+-+-+-+++- T anna lagunens arriva... Canna speciosa A Ae 1276 Capparis acuminata +.--+====.oorsresertrtests 1322 Caprifolium longiflorum +++... =+===.=..+.....* 1 Cassia biflora ----- mM 1310 Castilleja coccinea --........... HARIAS ss 1198 Cattleya crispa +++ rm nenenee vísesos. MITA Chasmonia incisa - - - -- e ES ... 1244 Chelone nemorosa ------.--*-** PET oss 19211 themum indicum ------- su... E 1287 Clematis chlorantha «888 1234 Cleome s Wai uar9u AAA 1312 Fore hastatum - e... ...... ye ntonia elegans »-+ "+++ nennen tenet” Clivia nobilis- +»: +- +++» ses rss en n res 1182 Meses — A RS d ollom eterophylla- »------ esses... eet ttn Collomia linearis id Paessesestorese ce ercocoo. 1166 Combretum comosum rm... 1105 Conanthera campanulata si eye v ER ENT TS 1193 Co naucleiflorus -----.======...** . 1203 Convolvulus farinosus ------=======**** ES 1908 Coreopsis Atkinsoniana - -- --- Vw eiu € Vau Ub EN 1376 Coreopsis aurea. ++- +++ ve»sbppsesosceveosoen 1228 Correa pulchella +=» ===. entm ^». 1294 Folium Cotoneaster frigida ------- Lies ce dee ou heen ees. EN Cotoneaster laxiflora --+-----+++> peas scavesuss 1305 Cotoneaster microphylla, var. Uva Ursi --+--+ 1187 Crassula turrita ...-. I o.copoco AE Cratzgus cordata --............. epo SP "SA .. Cratzgus heterophylla -+++...---- AE EPPA TS Crinum latifolium + +++. ..++.oono==..m... Crotalaria verrucosa ++... ......mom..... FRE Cuphea Llavea -----»- Peer es . Cytisus multiflorus Daphne hybrida --.-:. 888 "T Delphinium Menziesii -------+-++-- op wets T Dendrobium anceps-------- és euis yy perros AME Dendrobium longicornu---....+.=....... eaves. 1919. Dendrobium moniliforme - ++ ++ ++ ++ ++» vs de yt 1314 Dendrobium chrysanthum -..:eeHnnt 1299 Dendrobium secundum - +» +++ +++ AGA ERES 1291 Digitalis laciniata +++. «eet 1201 Diospyrus Mabola ---+--++++ EA TAS PY 1139 Dracena surculosa ----..-....* Cis vue Pe 1169 Drimia villosa ---:::tHMmeHeéeÁj 1346 Echeveria gibbiflo j 1247 nes ifolia --.+++++++ A 1156 ]lum cespitosum «romeros . 1167 E ROA «s+ n RS 1327 Erythrina poianthes -----+++ ctn 1246 Eschscholtzia californica --...-===.===** ner. 1168 Eulophia ensata 1147 Eutoca multiflora. --+-+====+srsrererrertttos? 1180 Fuchsia microphylla ----- dono ROUEN Fuchsia thymifolia . 1284 Gaillardia aristata -------.-**** 1186 Genista procumbens 1150 Gesneria macrostachya -+- +... +++ 1202 Gesneria rutila .«« mnn 1158 Gesneria rutila, var. atrosanguinea» - * - * 1279 Geum chilense, var. grandiflorum + +++» PATE 1348 Gilja capitata: .- +. ner sereensennennner nenne 1170. Grevillea concinna ««-- HR . 1383 Grevillea punicea A roso otp os (rh b 1319 Habranthus Andersoni »++++-+ +++ - ¿ds tes 1245 Hamelia ventricosa +++ +++" rer rennen 1195 Haylockia pt sa. nennen 1371 Hedychium coccineum «444888 1209 Helianthus lenticularis -----.-.. ===. nennen. 1265 Heuchera micrantha «e. nenne 1302 Hosackia bicolor ---.-.. ==... e. ...ocmo.... 1257 imis carulea mn... m Iris C in ooo MEC HP 1218 I formosus sem eo...” 1288 Jasminum acuminatum e mmm....co.” 1296 Justicia picta - ----- aéesssecévetétoesresbe esse 1227 Justicia venusta -+++-+- rennen tee 1380 Justicia guttata-------- ¿irc qsosvese 1334 Justicia quadrangularis - ----- PA MIETEN 1340 Kexnpferia VERD A 1212 er das var. longiracemosa ---- BR ee Lath ifornicus -«*-* Bá uu Lathyrus tingitanus- i2be.esedejetebsersesbosb Lepechinia spicata --..=======.. ttn 66 n8 1292 Leucocoryne odorata - e. ......c”” 1293 Linum sibiricum, var. Lewisit--------++--+-"* 1163 Linum mexicanum ---.-- 1326 Li alata acre 1175 Lissanthe sapida --------- 1275 Loasa ambrosimfolia --------- 1390 Lobelia longiflora- -- - - seen ... 1200 Lobelia PUTPUTED - «erm »» 1399 Lonicera involucrata «-.5mnnnnn8n ...« 1129 GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES. Folium Folium ; Lophanthus anisatus + »..........»»o...o...... 1282 Prunus candicans --..........- A 1135 ` i Loph um erubescens --................ 1381 Prunus dasycarpa NR ARANA ARS 1243 Lowea berifolia -...« II 1261 Pyrus angustifolia -.«.««m He 1907 : Lupinus arbustus- -....-....»..... resiweubbee 1230 Pyrus grandifolia ---.-... onen nennen - 1154 4 Lupinus aridus --.......»ooo..... A ee 1942 Pyrus sinensis ---+--+-- ee 1248 Lupinus laxiflorus rr rr rr o 1140 Pyrus s spuria ecoweccceccces PA RAN . 1196 1 Lupinus lepidus ------ QéeeBdqeocterecovesbot, 1149 Roeveals thyrsoidea- coo... cis... NA 1236 $ Lupinus littoralis- ---.- UC YT es SS eee ete IT, 1198 Renanthera coccinea +-.....-.+«.............. 1131 j Lupinus micranthus ----- PELLEPPERTEITZ ET 1251 Rhododendron arboreum, var. roseum ZI 1240 : Lupinus ornatus ------ BSS Sue secsecccesoccecs 1216 Ribes cereum- +--+ +... eo...» oo on nr en en nn nn ee . 1263 ^ Lupinus —— rererere re rer rte eters Pie | iti Ribes punctatum + »++..+..o.ooooncccononomm... 1278 year "e var. bra - —€— 1377 Ribes divaricatum +-++..-............ v«veueves 1500 var. Soulangiana m 1164 . Ribes sanguineum oossoo denen esscocesces 1349 M va purpurata ----- .... 1362 Ribes setosum + «+++ ¿e doo. rrr mn 1237 id Malva ance ... 1306 Ribes tenuiflorum ........ I nn cn en en 1274 Mammillaria pulcra - -. 1329 | Rosa multiflora, var. platyphylla»+............. 1372 Maxillaria ciliaris. .--------+ -. 1206 Rosa Ruga -«-««ee I III 1389 i Microstylis ophioglossoides ++ 1290 | Rubus nutkanus ::««- III 1368 y Mimulus propin uus +++ ++ es 1330 Ruellia Sabiniana .:...... I 1238 | CEnothera decum ..... 1221 Sagittaria angustifolia ---++++-+++-+++++++eerees 1141 t (Enothera pallida. ......- 5 1142 Salvia involucrata -..... IIR . -1205 CEnothera viminea +....-...-...... 1220 Salvia fulgens ++... +...» IH 1356 araneifera, var. limbata -..--.......- - 1197 | Salvia Grahami--...+......«..=..oo.o.om. ..... 1370 Orchis papilionacea --------+-+- ET RN werde 1155 Scilla plum RA $ 1355 i O tortuosa » +++ ++» + +=ooooooo.... wet rnm 1949 | Scottia angustifolia 1266 Pachypodium tuberosum --------- sess. 1321 Scottia dentata ------ . 1233 Palavia rhombifolia--.........:.............. 1375 Sedum Cepea ---------- 1391 Peeonia hybrida ....... err I 1208 Senecio lilacinus -------++-+++++++ 1342 F Passiflora ligularis +.-+....»..».».............. 1339 | Serapias cordigera, var. longipetala 1189 Pentstemon acuminatum »»»»»+++* $:64e004206. Tas Sinningia villosa -...... en 00. + 1134 Pentstemon attenuatum -::.. +. -.... 1295 | Sisyrinchium grandiflorum -+-.».......-- . 1964 Pentstemon confertum ...-... HH + 1260 Sisyrinchium odoratissimum --------+- e. 1283 i Pentstemon deustum »»+++»+ +++. + ++ eceocccee 1318 Sophora velutina -.........»...ooo.ocooo.s... 1185 | Pentstemon diffusum ---------- A PO 1132 | Sparaxis pendula --.-.... má 1360 A Pentstémon glambulosum . «-» « «« «eee de +++ 1262 | Spermadictyon azureum ----- e TY TT o... 1985 43 Pentstemon glaucum : ---- BER LARA 1286 | Sphacele campanulata .-..««..-- 1382 Pentstemon pruinosum +++.+.o....o.»=.=».....=- 1280 ri "mE — cocsecene se 1365 ^ entstemon couleri +.-.-.--....-.- coo..o...o... itak ca, var. pubescens »»- vi ie Kon m d Pentstemon speciosum -----.-- ee or nn 1970 Stachys IV eere ese oseoooneoccoceccoecceco 1295 Pentstemon triphyllum -+.+..+..+.............. 1245 Sterculia lanceolata......... eee. 1256 Pentstemon venustum -+++.+.......... IIIS 1309 Sterculia Tragacantha -+....o...ooooommm.... 1353 : Persea gratissima AS POS FREE 1258 Streptocarpus Rexii +....».».....o.... e... 1173 Phlomis floccosa --....- rn MIR 1300 Tabernemontana densiflora- ---+++++++++ boo... 1273 | Phlox speciosa -««..e MIR 1351 Tellima grandiflora PRA I E 1178 f Pholidota imbricata T IM 1213 Teucrium orchideum -...... mM 1255 Phycella Herbertiana ----- VosutedésevbbucuQse 1341 Thermopsis fabacea .... S 1272 Pimelea humilis ...... IH 1268 Thryallis brachystachys- ++...» +» ........... Prim 128 Pleurothallis prolifera -+.-.........=....... .. 1298 Tillandsia acaulis........- PA TRETEN, 1157 Plumeria Lambertiana --....---.-- ——— 1378 Tillandsia stricta -...-.....» n—— ecccscsss 1338 Podolobium trilobatum +--..+.-........ ....... 1333 Tillandsia rosea --............ benennen £e. 1357 j Polemonium czruleum, var. piliferum------ ++ 1303 RE EM eecscscosootesssceeccces 1225 i Polemonium humile ----....-..-.+. e. 1304 | Tu 2 edet solis, var. Persica ».....-..... + 1143 | Polygala oppositifolia, var. major eeoccocvesese 1146 Tup nutans ---.--- Vecevcedccegeccesscete ; LERS Polygonum injucundum -----.++++++++++++++ 1250 | Vaccinium ovatum + ............ sert .. 1354 Potentilla arguta -------- ERENTO Uv S dé 1379 Verbena Melindres ----- STE pepe re II eee 1184 Potentilla Hopwoodiana -. 1387 | Viola premorsa ------+--- fe nnnm. 1254 Pothos scandens -----+++ 1337 Zephyranthes mesochloa CE VERE dr epee MUERE Pratia begonifolia ..............» 1373 iolacea, var. coccinea »»...»»»........ 1294 | : THE END. LONDON: 3. MOYES, TOOK'S COURT, CHANCERY LANE. E ALPHABETICAL INDEX VOLUME III. OF THE NEW SERIES, - VOLUME XVI. OF THE WHOLE WORK. Acacia albida .......... ese Acacia hinala. ii Acacia undha. „53040440 Anemone vitifolia ..........., Anomatheca cruenta .......... Anona laurifolia .............. Argemone ochroleuca .......... Astragalus succulentus.......... Azalea calendulacea, var. subcuprea Azalea uudiflora, var. thyrsiflora.. Banksia littoralis Banksia undulata. ......... sve Blackwellia padiflora .. Browallia grandiflora Brunsvigia grandiflora.......... Cactus Ackermanni ..o.......o Calceolaria diffusa ...... aos Cd A Calceolaria Herbertiana Canna Achiras....... ias Canna lagunensis.............. Capparis acuminata. ..... dd Cassia biflorà ...... PE NOT Cleome speciosissima Clerodendron hastatum Collomia heterophylla ...... “... Convolvulus farinosus Coreopsis Atkinsoniana ........ Crassula turrita .......... eid Cuphea Llavea..... Dendrobium longicorm ........ Dendrobium moniliforme Drimia villosa ........ Erythrina carnea ........... sie Geum chilense, var. grandiflorum . Grevillea concinna ............ Grevillea punicea .......... vee Habranthus Andersoni Haylockia pusilla ........... $3 Justicia venusta .............- Justicia guttata ............. e. Justicia quadrangularis ...... .. Kennedya monophylla, var. longt- füCÉMMOSR oe ccvevecseveceses .oo......s eses...» "t ^ .o....». Bete ds digi ag Folium Lachenalia pallida ........... . 1350 Lathyrus tingitanus ............ 1388 Linum mexicanum ............ 1326 Loasa ambrosiwfolia .......... 1390 Lobelia purpurea .............. 1325 Lophospermum erubescens...... 1381 Lupinus polyphyllus, v. albiflorus. 1377 Malva purpurata .....oooo.o....» 1362 Malva Munroana.............. 1306 Mammillaria pulcra ........... 1329 Mimulus propinquus .......... 1330 Pachypodium tuberosum,....... 1321 Palavia rhombifolia ............ 1375 Passiflora ligularis ............ 1339 Pentstemon deustum .......... 1318 Pentstemon venustum .......... 1309 A coge 1351 Phycella Herbertiana .......... 1341 Plumeria Lambertiana ........ 1378 Podolobium trilobatum ........ 1333 Potentilla arguta .............- 1379 Potentilla Hopwoodiana ........ 1387 Pothos scandens .............- 1337 Pratia begonifolia ..........-.. 1373 Ribes divaricatum ............. 1359 Ribes sanguineum ......... sows: 1940 Rosa multiflora, var. platyphylla.. 1372 Rosa Ruga .............. Tise A589 Rubus nutkanus .............. 1368 Salvia fulgens ........... ee 1356 Salvia Grahami ............... 1370 Scilla plumbea ...... rad se 1355 Sedum Cepza ...........- dv». 1091 Senecio lilacinus . ....+......»- 1342 Sisyrinchium grandiflorum ...... 1364 Sparaxis pendula ...........- .. 1360 Sphacele campanulata.......... 1382 Spiræa ariefolia ....o.o.ooo..... 1365 Sterculia Tragacantha . .. ....... 1353 Tillandsia stricta .........»..... 1338 Tillandsia rosea ......... e. « 12907 Vaccinium ovatum ............ 1354 1361 Zephyranthes mesochloa . .. .. ...